The Intergenerational Transmission of The Father's Pro-Social Behavior: The Mediating Effect of The Father's Marital Satisfaction and The Parents’ Support for Co-parenting
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Liping Wen, Ting Zhou, Zheng HuangAuthors Info & Claims
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Based on the family ecological system theory, this paper explores the driving mechanism of the fathers'pro-social behavior and the children's pro-social behavior, which can be achieved by analyzing two factors : (1)fathers’ marital satisfaction,and(2)parents’ support for co-parenting.In this paper,we investigated 670 fathers of children aged between 3 and 6 who were raised mainly by their parents alone or collaborating with others and collected the corresponding sample data. The data is analyzed by the “structural equation model” and “bootstrap method”. Our findings prove that there were strong positive correlations between the fathers’ pro-social behavior with the children's pro-social behavior, between which fathers’ marital satisfaction and parents’ support for co-parenting play a chain mediating role.
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