The Relationship Between Mothers’ Parenting Stress, Mothers’ Attachment, and Adolescents’ Depression : The Moderated Mediation Effect of Fathers’ Parenting Stress

Key Points

• This research aims to explore how mothers' parenting stress affects adolescents' depression, with mothers' attachment as a mediator and fathers' parenting stress as a moderator.
• Analyzed data from 1,142 panel participants in the Korean Children’s Panel (2022).
• Utilized latent moderated structural equations for data analysis.
• Focus on the effects of mothers’ parenting stress on adolescents and the role of fathers’ stress.
• The study found a significant mediating effect of mothers' attachment on the relationship between their parenting stress and adolescents' depression.
• Higher fathers’ parenting stress increased the positive effect of mothers’ stress on adolescents’ depression through attachment.

Abstract