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  • Title: Marital adjustment, child-rearing disagreements, and overreactive parenting: predicting child behavior problems.
    Author: O'Leary SG, Vidair HB.
    Journal: J Fam Psychol; 2005 Jun; 19(2):208-16. PubMed ID: 15982096.
    Abstract:
    Using structural equation modeling, the authors evaluated the hypothesis that the relation between marital adjustment and children's behavior problems is mediated by child-rearing disagreements, whose effects are mediated by parents' overreactive discipline. In a community sample, fully or partially mediated models of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems of 3- to 7-year-old boys (N = 99) and girls (N = 104) were supported for mothers and fathers in 7 of 8 cases. Child-rearing disagreements always mediated the relation of marital adjustment and child behavior problems, and overreactive discipline was a final mediator in 3 cases. More variance was accounted for in mothers' than fathers' ratings. For mothers' ratings, the most variance was accounted for in boys' externalizing and girls' internalizing behavior problems.
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