The Bidirectional Relationship between Supportive Parenting and Social Skills: A Longitudinal Study among Chinese Preschoolers

Guo, Yuanfang; Hu, Bi Ying; Pan, Yuejuan; Vitiello, Ginny

doi:10.1007/s10826-023-02592-2

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“…The direct link between parenting style and emotion management skills provides theoretical support for parental involvement theory ( Hoover-Dempsey et al, 2005 ), which states that parents who take an active role tend to listen patiently to their children rather than reprimanding and punishing them, and are more likely to participate in children’s activities and guide children’s emotional perception, expression, and control either directly or subliminally. In such a family environment, children gain a sense of security, increase their self-confidence and independence, and further improve their emotion management skills balanced by their self-control ( Guo Y. et al, 2023 ). High-quality parent–child interactions result in children feeling supported by their families, accumulating positive energy, being more advantaged in complex social situations, having better self-control, and having positive and optimistic stability ( Dinkha et al, 2023 ; Li et al, 2023 ).…”

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Parenting style and children emotion management skills among Chinese children aged 3–6: the chain mediation effect of self-control and peer interactions

Li,

Zhu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Drawing on ecosystem theory, which is based on the interaction of family environment, individual characteristics, and social adaptation, this study aimed to examine the effects of parenting style on emotion management skills and the mediating roles of self-control and peer interactions among Chinese children aged 3–6 years. Some studies have investigated the relationship between parenting style and emotion management skills. However, research on the underlying mechanisms is still deficient. A sample of 2,303 Chinese children completed the PSDQ-Short Version, the Self-Control Teacher Rating Questionnaire, the Peer Interaction Skills Scale, and the Emotion Management Skills Questionnaire. The results show that: (1) Authoritarian parenting style negatively predicted children’s emotion management skills, self-control, and peer interactions; (2) Authoritative parenting style positively predicted children’s emotion management skills, self-control, and peer interactions; (3) Structural equation models indicated that self-control and peer interactions partially mediated the effects of authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles. The parenting style of Chinese children aged 3–6 years is related to emotion management skills, and self-control and peer interactions have chain mediating effects between parenting style and children’s emotion management skills. These results provide further guidance for the prevention and intervention of emotional and mental health problems in children.

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Parenting style and children emotion management skills among Chinese children aged 3–6: the chain mediation effect of self-control and peer interactions

Li,

Zhu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…The direct link between parenting style and emotion management skills provides theoretical support for parental involvement theory (Hoover-Dempsey et al, 2005), which states that parents who take an active role tend to listen patiently to their children rather than reprimanding and punishing them, and are more likely to participate in children's activities and guide children's emotional perception, expression, and control either directly or subliminally. In such a family environment, children gain a sense of security, increase their self-confidence and independence, and further improve their emotion management skills balanced by their self-control (Guo Y. et al, 2023). High-quality parent-child interactions result in children feeling supported by their families, accumulating positive energy, being more advantaged in complex social situations, having better self-control, and having positive and optimistic stability (Dinkha et al, 2023;.…”

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Parental Influence on Child Social and Emotional Functioning

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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“…As such, parental sensitivity is more likely in the context of an infant who frequently initiates conversation with their parents. Transactional links between parental sensitive responding and children's developing social competence have been documented in early and middle childhood (e.g., Blume et al, 2022;Guo et al, 2023). These patterns of associations also apply to early parent-infant interactions.…”

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Parental sensitivity and family conversation: A naturalistic longitudinal study with both mothers and fathers across three time‐points in early infancy

Fink,

Foley,

Browne

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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Parental verbal sensitivity is known to promote child language skills, but few studies have considered: (a) links between global (i.e., verbal, behavioral, and affective) measures of parental sensitivity and infant‐initiated conversations, an important precursor to language development; (b) whether maternal and paternal sensitivity show similar links with infant‐initiated conversation; or (c) the transactional role of infant conversation for later parental sensitivity. Addressing these gaps, this study of 186 British first‐time parents (93 families) examines the developmental dynamics between parental sensitivity and infant communication across the first year of life. We explore; (i) the role of maternal and paternal sensitivity (assessed during structured home observations at 4 months post‐partum) for parent‐infant conversational interactions at 7 months (indexed by day‐long naturalistic recordings), and (ii) whether these mother‐infant and father‐infant conversations at 7 months shape maternal and paternal sensitivity at 14 months (also assessed via structured home observations). For both male and female infants, maternal (but not paternal) sensitivity at 4 months predicted infant vocalisations and conversational initiation at 7‐months. By contrast, neither index of infant talk predicted maternal or paternal sensitivity at 14 months. Together these findings refine understanding of theoretical models of social development and suggest new possibilities for future research.

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The Bidirectional Relationship between Supportive Parenting and Social Skills: A Longitudinal Study among Chinese Preschoolers

Cited by 3 publications

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Parenting style and children emotion management skills among Chinese children aged 3–6: the chain mediation effect of self-control and peer interactions

Parenting style and children emotion management skills among Chinese children aged 3–6: the chain mediation effect of self-control and peer interactions

Parental Influence on Child Social and Emotional Functioning

Parental sensitivity and family conversation: A naturalistic longitudinal study with both mothers and fathers across three time‐points in early infancy

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