Structural Relationships Between Maternal Parenting Stress, Marital Conflict, Maternal Parenting Behavior, and School-Aged Children’s Emotion Regulation

Objectives: There is an increasing awareness of the importance maternal parenting stress on children’s development. Therefore, this study examined direct effect emotion regulation and its indirect via marital conflict behavior.Methods: Data were collected from 201 early school-aged (age 7~8) mothers. analyzed by Pearson’s correlation coefficients structural equation modeling using SPSS 21.0 AMOS 22.0.Results: First, did not significantly affect regulation. Second, through conflict. Third, affected behavior. Lastly, had behavior.Conclusion: Specific pathways identified which can children's This highlights mothers’ warm reasonable behavior that mediates relationship between Although conflict’s association with was significant, role in developing highlighted, as are significant sequential mediators