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This study investigated the moderating effect of the mother"s role as a gatekeeper on the effect of the father"s parenting attitude on the development of social emotions in 2-year-olds. To this end, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 127 fathers of 2-year-old infants enrolled in daycare centers in A, Gyeonggi-do, and multiple regression analysis was conducted to find the relationship between variables using the SPSS 25.0 program. As a result of the main study, first, the father"s positive parenting attitude and the mother"s openness were important variables that had a positive effect on the development of infants" social emotions. Second, the more positive a father takes parenting, the more the infant"s social-emotional development improves, and the more the mother encourages the father"s parenting and refrains from criticizing and controlling, the higher its influence. Through this, it was confirmed that the development of infants" social emotions can vary depending on the parenting attitude provided by parents, and the role of a mother"s gatekeeper is a factor that influences the father"s parenting attitude and children"s social-emotional development. In other words, the role of a mother"s gatekeeper affects the relationship between the father"s parenting and children"s social-emotional development, suggesting that mothers should refrain from criticizing and controlling the father"s parenting behavior and positively influence the infant"s social-emotional development through encouragement and support.
Kwak et al. (Thu,) studied this question.