نقش تعارض زناشويي و رابطه والدين با كودك در نشانه هاي آسيب شناختي عاطفي و رفتاري كودك

Role of Marital Conflict and Parent-Child Relationship in Childrenʹs Affective-Behavioral and Psychopathological Symptoms

Abstract: The goal of this study was to examine the correlation between marital conflict and parent-child relationship with childrenʹs affective and behavioral difficulties. Also, the role of marital conflict in predicting parent-child relationship was examined. This study used multi-stage relatively random sampling with 413 fifth-grade school children in the city of Tehran (220 girls and 193 boys). Mothers responded to the OʹLeary and Porter/ Overt Hostility Scale (OPS). Mothers and teachers responded to the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and children answered the parent-child relationship subscale of the Childrenʹs Perception of Interparental Conflict Questionnaire-for Young Children (CPIC-Y). The standard and simultaneously regression analyses indicated that marital conflict and parent-child relationship, both are predictors of childrenʹs affective and behavioral difficulties. In addition, marital conflict significantly predicts childrenʹs negative perception of parent-child relation¬ship. Hierarchical regression analyses did not confirm the mediating role of parent-child relationship between marital conflict and childrenʹs psychopathological symptoms. These results signify that marital conflict and parent-child relationship are predictors of childrenʹs psychopathological difficulties and marital conflict affect childrenʹs perception of the parent-child relationship negatively.