@article{ref1,
title="How domestically violent fathers impact children's social-emotional development: fathers' psychological functioning, parenting, and coparenting",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2020",
author="Thompson-Walsh, Catherine and Scott, Katreena L. and Lishak, Victoria and Dyson, Amanda",
volume="112",
number="",
pages="e104866-e104866",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Most children exposed to father-perpetrated domestic violence (DV) continue to have contact or live with fathers, yet there is little research on the  impact of fathering in the context of domestic violence. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: This paper aimed  to identify pathways from children's exposure to father-perpetrated DV to  compromised social-emotional outcomes. Based on extant literature on fathering and  domestic violence, psychological, parenting, and coparenting features in DV fathers  were identified as potential mediators of the relationship between child exposure to  DV and their social-emotional outcomes. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Participants were  123 fathers with confirmed histories of DV perpetration and 101 comparison fathers  without such histories. <br><br>METHODS: Fathers completed self-report measures during two  assessment sessions held at the university. Simple mediation analyses were used to  examine pathways between fathers' DV perpetration and child internalizing and  externalizing difficulties through potential mediators. <br><br>RESULTS: Paternal  depression, hostility, and coparenting difficulties significantly mediated the  relationship between child exposure to DV and child internalizing and externalizing  difficulties. Low paternal warmth was associated with child externalizing  difficulties but did not function as a mediator. Paternal over-reactivity and  laxness, in contrast, were not significantly correlated with DV perpetration or with  child internalizing or externalizing outcomes. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that  fathers' emotion regulation and coparenting difficulties are important correlates of  his DV perpetration and of their children's psychological symptoms and should be  considered as potential foci for parenting intervention with this population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104866",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104866"
}