Data for: How domestically violent fathers impact children's social-emotional development: fathers' psychological functioning, parenting, and co-parenting

In the current study we were interested in exploring whether fathers’ depression, parenting over-reactivity and hostility, parenting laxness, parenting rejection, and co-parenting might mediate the relationship between child exposure to domestic violence and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties. We investigated each variables as a separate mediator in a series of independent mediation models. Participants were 123 fathers with confirmed histories of DV perpetration and 101 comparison fathers without such histories. The outcome variables of child externalizing and internalizing difficulties were measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – Parent Form (SDQ) (Goodman, 1997). Fathers’ depression and hostility were measured using relevant subscales from the Symptom Checklist – Revised (SCL-90-R) (Derogatis, 1994). Fathers’ over-reactivity and laxness were measured using the Parenting Scale (PS) (Arnold, O’Leary, Wolff, & Acker, 1993). The Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire – Parent Short Form (PARQ) was used to measure fathers’ self-reported warmth toward and acceptance versus rejection of their child (Rohner, 2005). Co-parenting difficulties were measured using the Parenting Alliance Measure (PAM; Abidin & Konold, 1999), a 20-item self-report questionnaire that assesses co-parenting relationship quality.

本研究旨在探讨父亲的抑郁症状、养育过度反应与敌意、养育放纵、养育拒绝以及共同养育行为，是否在儿童目睹家庭暴力与儿童内化、外化行为问题之间发挥中介作用。本研究通过一系列独立中介模型，分别检验了各变量作为单一中介变量的效应。本研究的被试包括123名具有确认家庭暴力（Domestic Violence, DV）施暴史的父亲，以及101名无此类施暴史的对照父亲。儿童外化与内化行为问题作为因变量，采用长处与困难问卷-家长版（Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire – Parent Form, SDQ）进行测评（Goodman, 1997）。父亲的抑郁症状与敌意水平，采用症状自评量表修订版（Symptom Checklist – Revised, SCL-90-R）的相关子量表进行测评（Derogatis, 1994）。父亲的养育过度反应与放纵程度，采用养育量表（Parenting Scale, PS）进行测评（Arnold、O’Leary、Wolff及Acker, 1993）。采用父母接受与拒绝问卷-家长简版（Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire – Parent Short Form, PARQ），测评父亲自我报告的对子女的温暖、接纳与拒绝态度（Rohner, 2005）。共同养育困难程度则采用养育联盟量表（Parenting Alliance Measure, PAM; Abidin与Konold, 1999）进行测评，该量表为包含20个条目的自评问卷，用于评估共同养育关系的质量。