The mediating role of locus of control in the relationship between paternal over parenting and depressive symptoms among children in transnational households

• Main Author: Dee, Eunica A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Families > Philippines; Role reversal; Locus of control; Depression in children; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_psych/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=etdm_psych
• Institution: De La Salle University

Filipino families are known to be patriarchal in nature. Mothers tend to take care of their family while the father takes on the role of being the breadwinner. However, due to economic changes, opportunities for women to work abroad increased rapidly. Hence, there was a rolereversal between the husband and the wife. The current research investigated the tendencies of left-behind fathers to over-parent their children. More so, children who adopted an external locus of control are likely susceptible to depressive symptomatology. A total of 243 undergraduate students from Batangas whose mother are working in abroad answered the survey. Results show that eldest daughters who are freshmen are susceptible to depressive symptoms. However, it was found that their fathers’ over-parenting behavior did not cause their depressive symptoms and there are other things that have influenced it.