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Exploring the Relationship between Parental Stress and Child Behavioral Problems in Precocious Puberty: The Role of

Young Il Cho1, Ahreum Kwon2, Hyo Jin Kim3

  • 1College of Police and Criminal Justice, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea.

Yonsei Medical Journal
|June 24, 2025
PubMed

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Parental stress impacts girls with precocious puberty behavior through parenting style and coping. Task-focused coping strategies can improve parenting and reduce behavioral issues.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Parenting Research

Background:

  • Precocious puberty in children causes rapid physical changes, potentially leading to behavioral problems.
  • Parenting style, parental stress, and coping mechanisms are key factors influencing child behavior.
  • Understanding these dynamics is crucial for supporting children with precocious puberty.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the serial mediating effects of parenting style and parental coping mechanisms.
  • To investigate the relationship between parental stress and behavioral problems in girls with precocious puberty.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study of 200 mothers of girls with precocious puberty in Korea.
  • Utilized validated questionnaires for parental stress, parenting style, coping strategies, and child behavior.
  • Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, t-tests, Pearson's correlations, and bootstrap analyses.

Main Results:

  • Family/personal role stress promotes emotion-oriented coping, leading to negative parenting and child behavioral issues.
  • Relationship stress encourages task-focused coping, enhancing positive parenting and reducing negative parenting.
  • Parenting style and coping mechanisms serially mediate the link between parental stress and behavioral problems.

Conclusions:

  • Interventions should focus on promoting task-focused coping strategies for mothers of children with precocious puberty.
  • Supporting mothers in managing stress through effective coping can positively influence their children's behavior.
  • This approach may mitigate behavioral problems associated with precocious puberty.
Abstract

Keywords:
Parentingcopingprecocious pubertyproblem behaviorstress

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