Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of mother`s neuroticism and parenting stress, and young children`s stress on internal and external problem behaviors. The participants of this study consisted of 236 mothers, who had children aged 5-7 in Chungbuk area. Mothers responded to questionnaires and data analyzed using SPSS program(version 12.0) and AMOS program(version 5.0). The results of this study were as follows.: First, a mother`s neuroticism, parenting stress, and young children`s stress directly influenced on young children`s internalizing problem behaviors. The effect of mother`s neuroticism on young children`s internalizing problem behaviors was mediated by mother`s parenting stress and young children`s stress. Second, mother`s parenting stress influenced young children`s externalizing problem behaviors directly, but mother`s neuroticism and young children`s stress did not. The effect of mother`s neuroticism on young children`s externalizing problem behaviors was mediated by parenting stress.
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