Father Locus of Control and Child Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes: A Prospective Study

An Investigation of Factors that Influence Acceptability of Parent Training

“…Also, both mothers and fathers who have children with significant behavior problems tend to have a more external locus of control (Hagekull, Bohlin, & Hammarberg, 2001). However, there is evidence that the relationship between parental locus of control and child behavior problems is bidirectional with greater child behavior problems associated with an increase in parental external locus of control and external locus of control predicting greater child behavior problems for both mothers and fathers (Freed & Tompson, 2011;Tone, Goodfellow, & Nowicki, 2012). There is also evidence that a parent's locus of control impacts parental stress.…”