The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of Father-children relationship between marital conflict and children's behavior problems. Through this, it was to provide the need of father Education and Marital Education for improve ma...
The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of Father-children relationship between marital conflict and children's behavior problems. Through this, it was to provide the need of father Education and Marital Education for improve marital relationship and Father-children relationship, restore Family Health.
The subjects of this study were 305 poor children in poverty who are 4th to 6th grade in elementary school and currently using the community child centers in Pusan area. The collected data have been analyzed by the statistics program of SPSS/WIN 18.0. and AMOS/WIN 18.0. The analysis methods were the descriptive statistics analysis, frequencies analysis, correlational analysis, and structural equation modeling.
The results of this study were summarized as follows.
First, correlational analysis showed that marital conflict had a negative correlation with children's behavior problems. Also, marital conflict had a positive correlation with children's externalizing behavior problems and internalizing behavior problems. However, negative Father-children relationship of Father-children relationship had no statistically significant relation with children's behavior problems.
Second, the higher marital conflict of children's awareness was, the higher the children's behavior problems, and the higher positive Father-children relationship of children's awareness was, the lower the children's behavior problems.
Third, path analysis demonstrated that Father-children relationship fully mediated in the relation between marital conflict and children's behavior problems. This analysis also revealed that marital conflict had a indirect effect on children's behavior problems.
Based on the results of the study, The author proposed the needs of Comprehensive Program for low-income family and the intervention should be on the entire family rather than an individual. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.