3.2.2. Parental anxiety and challenging parenting behaviour
As the correlation (see Table 2) between maternal and paternal challenging parenting behaviour was significant with a moderate effect, separate regression models were created for mothers and fathers. For each analysis variables were entered in the following order: (1) parent age, and (2) parent DASS anxiety score. Prior to conducting a hierarchical MRA, relevant assumptions were tested. As mentioned, distributions for mother and father anxiety scores (DASS) were not normally distributed, analyses conducted with transformed variables are reported. All remaining assumptions for the MRA were met.