Clarifying the Association Between Mother-Father Relationship Aggression and Parenting.

ABSTRACT: Although much research examines the association between fathers' relationship aggression and mothers' parenting, little attention is given to mothers' aggression, mutual aggression, or fathers' parenting. Using a sample of coresiding couples from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 973), the authors examine the association between mothers' and fathers' relationship aggression, measured as frequency and perpetration-victimization types (mutual, mother-only, father-only), and mothers' and fathers' parenting. Fixed effects regression models show that fathers' aggression-father-only or mutual-is positively related to mothers' parenting stress, whereas father-only or mother-only aggression is related to fathers' stress. For both parents, aggression perpetration is negativ

SUBMITTER: Nomaguchi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5321549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature