Financial Stress, Conflict, and Poor Adolescent Adjustment: the Functioning of Fathering Behaviors

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of financial stress and interparental conflict on poor adolescent adjustment accounting for the role of fathering behaviors. This data set comprised of 719 married fathers from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) Wave 2 who provided reports on values of independent variables. Both supportive and corrosive fathering behaviors were based on adolescent children's perception of their father's behaviors. Dependent variables, externalizing problem behaviors, internalizing problem behaviors, trouble with peers, and poor grades at school, were based on averaged reports of both the mother and the father to give a more objective understanding of their perception on their children's problem behaviors.