Parental Overprotection and Self-Efficacy and Children's Behavior Problems in Early Childhood in Relation with Family Structure

U ovom istraživanju ispitivan je odnos roditeljskog prezaštićivanja, roditeljske samoefikasnosti, strukture obitelji i problema u ponašanju djece u ranom djetinjstvu.U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 277 majki djece rane predškolske dobi. Majke su procjenjivale u kojoj mjeri prezaštićuju vlastitu djecu, svoju roditeljsku samoefikasnost te internalizirane i eksternalizirane probleme u ponašanju kod djece.Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju značajnu pozitivnu povezanost roditeljskog prezaštićivanja i problema u ponašanju kod djece, kako internaliziranih tako i eksternaliziranih problema, te je utvrđen glavni efket roditeljskog prezaštićivanja na probleme u ponašanju djece. Efekt spola djeteta utvrđen je samo za eksternalizirane probleme u ponašanju pri čemu dječaci pokazuju više eksternaliziranih problema nego djevojčice. Roditeljska samoefikasnost se pokazala značajno negativno povezanom s eksternaliziranim problemima, ali ne i s internaliziranim problemima djece.Utvrđeno je da ne postoji značajna razlika u roditeljskom prezaštićivanju s obzirom na strukturu obitelji. Ono što se pokazalo značajnim je da majke iz dvoroditeljskih obitelji procjenjuju samoefikasnost nižom nego majke u jednoroditeljskim obiteljima. Djeca iz jednoroditeljskih obitelji i djeca iz dvoroditeljskih obitelji imaju podjednako internaliziranih i eksternaliziranih problema.This study examined the relationship between parental overprotection, parents self-efficacy, family structure and childrens behavioral problems in early childhood.The study included 277 mothers of children in early childhood age. Mothers provided information about their overprotection, self- efficacy and childrens internalized and externalized behavioral problems.The results indicate significant positive correlation between parental overprotection and children's behavioral problems, both internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Parent's self-efficacy was in significant negative correlation with children's externalizing behavioral problems but it wasn't in significant correlation with internalizing behavioral problems. The main effect of parental overprotection was significant for both children's internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems, and child gender had a significant effect only for externalizing behavioral problems in which boys had a higher levels of externalizing problems than girls.There was no significant difference in parental overprotection given the structure of the family, but what was significant was that mothers in two-parent families are assessed lower self-efficacy than mothers in single-parent families. Children from single-parent families and children from two-parent families had equal levels with both internalizing and externalizing problems