Emotional support, unsupportive interactions, and
disruptive child behaviors moderated the stress — mood relationship.
Consistent with our predictions,
disruptive child behaviors moderated the daily parenting stress — negative mood relationship (β = 0.01, p <.001), but not the daily parenting stress — positive mood relationship.
Not exact matches
In the current study, statistical analyses evaluated the main and
moderating effects of variables measured repeatedly at the within - person level (stress, social support, and unsupportive interactions) and variables measured at the between - person level (
disruptive child behaviors, and support services) on daily positive and negative mood.
Moderating predictions were more tentative; it was predicted that instrumental social support and support services would buffer the relationship between daily parenting stress and daily negative mood, whereas unsupportive interactions and
disruptive child behaviors would intensify the effect of daily parenting stress on daily negative mood.
Furthermore, the relationship between
disruptive child behaviors and negative mood was
moderated by daily parenting stress; on more stressful days, higher levels of
disruptive behaviors predicted higher levels of daily negative mood.
Parental stress has been shown to
moderate parent's ratings of
child disruptive behavior.