Abstract

This study examines why parents, who are perpetrators of child abuse, violently against their children, from the perspective of the intergenerational transmission of violence, and to find out the mechanisms of what foactors affect the most in the process of transmission. First, social learning theory, attachment theory, social information processing theory, neurophysiological models, and behavioural genetics were presented as theories that explain the intergenerational transmission of violence, and its core characteristics were examined. Second, parents’ affect regulation of their children’s emotions leads to abusive parenting, affecting their emotions, behavioral patterns, and physiological responses, and how this process explains the intergenerational transmission of violence. Third, it is necessary to change the parents’ affect regulation strategy to prevent the intergenerational transmission of violence, to this end, we will try to explain the importance of the parent’s affect regulation system within this range by applying the window of affect tolerance(Seigel, 1999), which is a state in which any affect can be effectively experienced and controlled. Finally, we reviewed previous studies related to this, examined the factors effective in expanding the window of affect tolerance, and suggested contents that should be reflected in the counseling and curriculum for parents who have experienced abusive parenting.