This longitudinal study examined spillover effects of marital conflict on subsequent parenting and preschoolers’ outcomes in South Korea. Data came from the Panel Study on Korean Children. Participants were 1,826 South Korean fathers, mothers, and their preschool children (M age = 3 years at Time 1; 51.5% boys). Path analysis was conducted to examine longitudinal relationships among marital conflict, fathers’ and mothers’ parenting behaviors (i.e., warmth and strict control), and preschool children’s emotional maladjustment and peer relationships. Marital conflict when children were age 3 predicted lower levels of warmth for mothers and fathers, but not levels of strict control, when children were age 4. Maternal reports of lower warmth and higher strict control when children were age 4 predicted preschoolers’ later emotional maladjustment, but not peer relationships at age 5. Paternal reports of warmth and control at age 4 predicted preschoolers’ subsequent peer relationships, but not their emotional problems at age 5. Direct effects of marital conflict at age 3 on children’s outcomes at age 5 were also found. The model fits equally well for boys and girls. The study suggests that different socialization processes may have been affected for mothers and fathers by marital conflict, which in turn selectively affected different outcomes in children.

This study examined the longitudinal relations between mothers' and fathers' parenting stress and young children's aggressive and cooperative behaviors via mothers' and fathers' coparenting behaviors. Methods: The sample consisted of 1,692 mothers, fathers, and their young children (M age = 5 years at T1; 51% boys) who participated in the Panel Study on Korean Children. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine the relations among parenting stress, co-parenting, and young children's aggressive and cooperative behaviors. Results: Mothers' and fathers' parenting stress were longitudinally associated with their own and their partners' positive and conflict-ridden co-parenting behaviors, which in turn predicted young children's aggressive and cooperative behaviors. Moreover, the positive and conflict-ridden coparenting behaviors of mothers in particular played mediating roles in the longitudinal links between mothers' and fathers' parenting stress and young children's aggressive and cooperative behaviors. Conclusions: The present findings contributed to our understanding about the intervening mechanisms that account for how parenting stress is related to young children's aggressive and cooperative behaviors.

This study explored Korean college students' place attachment to current home environments and their place attachment to childhood home environments. The study sought to confirm the relationship between childhood place attachment and collegehood place attachment to home environment. Data were collected from 336 students at four universities in Jellabuk-Do, Korea, and questionnaire survey was performed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was computed and showed five factors related to place attachment of home environment. Place intimacy, rootedness, place identity, place dependence, and place palyness showed in childhood place attachment to home; place identity, place affection, place restfulness, place dependence, and rootedness in collegehood place attachment to home. Canonical correlation analysis showed that childhood place attachment to home explained 43.9% variance with regard to collegehood place attachment to home. This relationship implied that childhood place attachment strongly affected subsequent collegehood place attachment. .

The aim of the present study was to explore the longitudinal links among mothers' and fathers' warm parenting, children's prosocial behavior, peer relationships, and their subjective wellbeing. Specifically, the research tested indirect relations between mothers' and fathers' warm parenting and children's subjective well-being via children's prosocial behavior and peer relationships. Methods: The participants were 1,661 parents and their children (T1: M age = 7) from the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). Direct and indirect relations among the study variables were explored using path analysis. Results: Mothers' warm parenting was directly related to children's subsequent subjective well-being, while fathers' warm parenting was not directly associated with children's subsequent subjective wellbeing. Fathers' warm parenting was linked to children's subsequent prosocial behavior, which in turn predicted the number of close friends, social adjustment with peers, and frequency of peer conflict. In turn, children's diverse types of peer relationships predicted their subjective well-being. Children's prosocial behavior was also positively related to their subsequent subjective well-being. Conclusion: The present findings suggest children's prosocial behavior and peer relationships are intervening mechanisms that account for how fathers' warm parenting predicts their children's subsequent subjective well-being. This study also highlights the protective role of mothers' warm parenting in children's subjective well-being.

Objectives: The present study examined the longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of marital conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. In particular, the study explored the mediating roles of mothers' and fathers' positive co-parenting and co-parenting conflict in these links. Methods: This study analyzed the data of 2,150 children (M age = 4 years at T1) and their parents from the panel study on Korean children. A path analysis was conducted to investigate the links among the study variables. Results: Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of marital conflict were directly associated with children's subsequent externalizing problem behavior. Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of marital conflict were also directly related to their own and partners' positive co-parenting and co-parenting conflict at a later time point. Mothers' positive co-parenting and co-parenting conflict predicted children's subsequent internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Moreover, mothers' positive co-parenting and coparenting conflict were mediators in the relations between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of marital conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Conclusion: The present results enhance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms that explain the longitudinal links between marital conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors.