%0 Journal Article 
%A Ruiz Ortiz, Rosa María
%A Braza Lloret, Paloma
%A Carreras de Alba, María Rosario
%A Muñoz Sánchez, José Manuel
%T Does surgency moderate the relationship betweenparenting and children's aggression in middlechildhood?
%D 2022
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27754
%X Parenting and child temperament have both been linked to
aggression among children. This study explores the moderating
effects of children's surgency and sex and paternal/maternal
parenting practices on aggressive behaviour in middle childhood.
We analyse whether the moderating effects observed fit a
Diathesis-Stress, Differential Susceptibility or Vantage Sensitivity
model. Participants were 203 school children aged 7–8 years
(M = 92.42 months, SD = 3.52) from southern Spain. Maternal
inconsistency and coercion and paternal hostility and indulgence,
had a direct effect on children's aggressive behaviour.
The effects of maternal hostility and anticipatory problem solving
on children's aggression were moderated by surgency
(Diathesis-Stress), as was the effect of paternal coercion on
aggression (Vantage Sensitivity). Children's sex was not found to
moderate any effect. It therefore seems that not all children are
equally sensitive to the influence of parenting on their aggression
levels, and that this influence depends on their temperament.
%K aggression
%K diathesis-stress
%K middle childhood
%K parenting
%K surgency
%~ Universidad de Cádiz