The Role of Perceived Social Support on Parenting Stress and Paternal Responsive Parenting for Stay-at-Home Father

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10.2991/978-2-38476-495-2_23How to use a DOI?

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Parenting Stress; Paternal Responsive Parenting; Perceived Social Support

Abstract

The stay-at-home father (SAHF) phenomenon has become world-wide, including in Indonesia. It is known that SAHF faces several challenges that can affect their parenting stress. Although high levels of parenting stress are known to be associated with lower paternal responsive behavior, there are other factors that could potentially moderate this relationship, such as perceived social support. This research aims to study the relationship between parenting stress and paternal responsive parenting, and whether perceived social support can moderate the relationship in SAHF. Parenting stress measured by PSS, perceived social support measured by MPSS, and paternal responsive parenting measured by PSDQ. The data collected from 94 participants that filled an online questionnaire. The results demonstrated that (1) parenting stress is associated negatively with paternal responsive parenting (-0,676) and (2) perceived social support was a significant moderator in the relationship between parenting stress and paternal responsive parenting (0,1417). Another findings are that (3) most of the SAHFs experience moderate levels of parenting stress, (4) there are three paternal responsive parenting behaviors shown by the SAHFs in the context of school activity, and (5) perceived social support experienced by SAHFSs in this study are primarily from their closest relation, particularly their wives.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sevira Sevira
AU  - Roswiyani Roswiyani
AU  - Monty P. Satiadarma
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/29
TI  - The Role of Perceived Social Support on Parenting Stress and Paternal Responsive Parenting for Stay-at-Home Father
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities 2025 (ICEBSH 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 243
EP  - 258
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-495-2_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-495-2_23
ID  - Sevira2025
ER  -