作者：黃菁瑜、沈瓊桃、謝意苹、華筱玲、魏希聖、馮瑞鶯

題目：Gender matters: The effect of parental violence on youth mental health mediated via parenting styles

摘要：

Experiencing violence from parents has detrimental impact on youth mental health, while parenting styles can mediate this effect. However, how gender can affect these relationships remains understudied. This study examines how parenting styles mediate the relation between parental violence and children’s mental health, and how parental and child gender moderate them using a representative sample of 2,771 Taiwanese youth (49.1% males). A subsample of 1,296 victimized youth (54.6% males) was selected for further statistical analyses. The participants self-reported at two time points (age 10 and 12) their experiences of physical and psychological violence by their parents, perceived parenting styles, and their own psychological symptoms. We used Structural Equation Modeling to clarify how parenting styles mediate between parental violence and youth mental health. The results revealed that boys report higher rate of suffering physical and psychological violence from both parents compared to girls. Paternal physical violence affects youth mental health via authoritarian parenting style across both boys and girls. Maternal psychological violence impacts youth mental health via Chinese parenting styles for girls but not for boys. Our findings demonstrate a gendered pathway between parental violence and youth mental health via universal and culturally specific parenting styles. This has important implications for mental health practitioners and policy makers on how interventions can be adjusted to be more culturally appropriate and gender sensitive.

主要發現：相較於女孩，男孩遭受父母雙方的身體虐待與精神暴力的比例較高。父親的身體虐待會透過威權式教養風格影響男孩及女孩的心理健康。母親的精神暴力則會透過華人教養風格影響女孩的心理健康，但對男孩並無顯著影響。

全文：https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.70257