Yet, the peer-reviewed literature on psychosocial aspects of violence and aggression in Ukraine is remarkably limited.
Ukraine is the largest country in Europe that, in recent history, has experienced a number of political and military crises involving violence and aggression.
These findings can be used to design programs and foster dialogues about the role of family and social environments in the development of externalizing disorder among researchers, representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations and mass media that work with child abuse prevention in Ukraine. This study extends international psychosocial knowledge on children and families. Results also indicated that child male gender and single parenting had significant and positive association with child externalizing behaviors. Results revealed that positive parenting, child monitoring, and avoidance of corporal punishment were associated with fewer child externalizing symptoms. The study estimated the relationship between parenting practices and child externalizing behaviors, such as aggression, delinquency and attention problems. Quantitative data were collected during face-to-face interviews with 320 parents of children 9–16 years of age (50% males) in 11 communities in Eastern, Southern and Central Ukraine. The purpose of this study was to assess the association of positive and negative parenting with child externalizing problems.
