“…High parental self-efficacy is correlated with competent parenting behaviour and positive parenting practices (Jones & Prinz, 2005;Machida, Taylor & Kim, 2002) and is known to play an important role in parents' psychological functioning. It is inversely related to both maternal depression (Cutrona & Troutman, 1986;Teti & Gelfand, 1991) and parental stress (Gross, Fogg & Tucker, 2005;Scheel & Rieckmann, 1998) and there is further evidence that it is positively associated with role satisfaction (Coleman & Karraker, 2000) and influenced by the parents' personal characteristics (Sevigny & Loutzenhiser, 2009).…”