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Fathers' parenting behaviors and Malaysian adolescents' anxiety: family income as a moderator


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Jafari, Mahboubeh and Baharudin, Rozumah and Archer, Marc (2016) Fathers' parenting behaviors and Malaysian adolescents' anxiety: family income as a moderator. Journal of Family Issues, 37 (2). pp. 198-220. ISSN 0192-513X; ESSN: 1552-5481

Abstract

The present study examined the moderating role of family income on the relationships between perceived paternal parenting behavior and adolescents’ anxiety among economically and ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. A total of 1,200 participants aged between 12 and 17 years were selected for the study. A self-administered questionnaire, including Quality of Parenting Behavior Scale and Beck Anxiety Inventory–Malay were used to collect the data. The results obtained indicate that there was a significant relationship between paternal hostility (β = .34, p < .001) and paternal monitoring (β = −.29, p < .01) with adolescents’ anxiety. A multigroup analysis using structural equation modeling also demonstrated that family income level moderated the relationship between parenting and adolescent outcomes. The findings revealed that paternal consistent discipline and paternal monitoring behavior reduced adolescent anxiety in high-income families. Finding advanced understanding on how the associations between fathers’ parenting behaviors and adolescent anxiety could be quite varied when family’s financial circumstances were taken into account.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X13513580
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keywords: Adolescence; Anxiety; Family income; Parenting behavior
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2016 08:07
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2016 08:07
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29237
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