자녀의 외현화 행동문제로 야기된 모의 양육스트레스 지각과정에서 역기능적 양육사고의 매개효과

The mediating effect of mothers dysfunctional parenting thoughts in the process of the parenting stress perception related to their children s externalizing behavior problems

The purpose of this study was how to evaluate the mediating effect of dysfunctional parenting thoughts in the pathways from children s externalizing behavior problems to mothers parenting stress with mothers depressive feelings. A total of 384 mothers of elementary school were surveyed on those variables. Those variables were correlated significantly with each others. Especially, parenting stress were correlated with children s externalizing problem behavior .71, and with dysfunctional parenting thoughts .69, Through path-analysis, dysfunctional thoughts effected on parenting stress and mothers depressive feelings significantly on the standardized coefficient as .41, and .42 on each variable. The superior path model showed NFI .99, RFI .98, IFI .99, TFI .99, TLI .99, CFI .99, RMSEA .05. Finally, therapeutic implications based on these results discussed.