The Role of Fathers` Experienced Parenting and Psychological Well-Being in Predicting Fathering Attitudes to Their Children
Ha Yeng Jo , Seong Yeon Park
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to explore the moderating affects of fathers` current psychological well-being in the relationships between fathers` experienced parenting from the family of origin and their parenting attitudes to their children. The subjects themselves consisted of 370 fifth-and sixth-grade children and their fathers from elementary schools in Seoul and Deagu. Questionnaires containing items related to experienced parenting and the current psychological well-being reported by fathers and fathers` parenting attitudes reported by their children were used Regression. Analyses revealed that a fathers` ``independent encouraging`` attitude to their children was predicted by a fathers` psychological well-being whereas a fathers` ``acceptance`` attitudes was predicted by both a fathers` experienced ``acceptance`` parenting and their psychological well-being. Further, a fathers` psychological well-being played a moderate role in the relationship between fathers` experienced ``independent encouraging`` parenting from the family of orign their ``independent encouraging`` attitude to their children.
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