Table 5.
Parenting Stress | Engagement with Children | Frequency of Spanking | ||||
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Mothers | Fathers | Mothers | Fathers | Mothers | Fathers | |
Frequency of aggression | ||||||
Fathers | + | |||||
Mothers | − | |||||
Perpetration-victimization type | ||||||
Mutual aggression | + | − | − | |||
Mother-only | + | − | − | + | ||
Father-only | + | + | − | |||
No aggression (reference) | ||||||
Which aggression type was related to parenting? |
Victimization or mutual |
Perpetration or victimization |
Perpetration | Perpetration or mutual |
Perpetration or mutual |
Victimization |
“+” indicates a positive association; “−” indicates a negative association.