The purpose of this study was to investigate the stress of father on child rearing, especially focused on the change of role expectancy. The subjects were 97 preschool children's fathers and 108 mothers to compare. Parenting Stress Index were utilized...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the stress of father on child rearing, especially focused on the change of role expectancy. The subjects were 97 preschool children's fathers and 108 mothers to compare. Parenting Stress Index were utilized to assess. The items have been assigned to three sub-scales( distress of parent, dysfunctional parent-child interaction, children's degree of bother ). The data were analyzed with t-test and stepwise multiple regression.
The results showed that paternal stress is less than maternal one. There were significant differences in total score on PSI, except in dysfunctional parent-child interaction. Especially distress of parent is the most different, the scores of fathers' stress was lower than mothers'. And the level of parenting stress is negatively related to the one of parents' education.