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Direct linkLinlin Liang; Ni Zhang; Wen Liu; Linlin Lin; Xue Zhang – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Externalizing problem behaviors, such as childhood aggression, have a significant impact on adolescent delinquency and even adult delinquency and violence. Mother's attitudes and behaviors can impact the self-control and regulation of preschoolers, which in turn reflect in preschoolers' externalizing problems. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Aggression, Preschool Children
Xi Chen; Nancy L. McElwain; Eva M. Pomerantz; Mengjiao Wang – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examines the moment-to-moment within-person associations between maternal and child behaviors during a challenging puzzle task and compares these associations between mother--child dyads from the United States (n = 99, 52 boys, M[subscript child age] = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China (n = 101, 46 boys, M[subscript child age] = 57.41…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Influence, Preschool Children
Jun Hao; Yeh Hsueh; Katherine Kitzmann; Haojie Yuan; Yaping Yue – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Parental supervision, parental risk perception, and parental risk attitudes constitute an important parenting environment for the development of young children. To examine the mechanisms of Chinese parenting environment on young children's risk-taking behaviors, this study first established a four-factor model and surveyed 497…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes
Rebecca S. Friesen; Katherine C. Cheng; Adriana D. Cimetta; Ronald W. Marx; Christina A. Cutshaw; David B. Yaden – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examined the role of parenting practices on preschoolers' secure exploratory behaviors; specifically, the extent to which parenting practices mediate the relationship between socio-economic status, perceived neighborhood support, parental depression and children's exploratory behaviors. The participants (n = 3268) were parents of young…
Descriptors: Child Development, Security (Psychology), Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
Juanjuan Sun; Junsheng Liu; Mowei Liu; Yuemin Feng; Yan Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Despite the fact that the universal two-child policy had a significant impact on family structure and parenting behaviors, there is still a paucity of study on the mechanisms underlying this policy's effects. This study explored the role of social competence and sibling presence in the relationship between maternal warmth and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
Zhonglian Yan; Wenqi Lin; Jing Ren; Qinglin Ma; Yanling Qin – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the relationships among parenting styles, children's electronic media usage (EMU) and children's problem behaviours (CPB), 1,224 preschoolers aged 3-6 years old (52.0% boys; 30.9% aged 3 years old, 34.6% aged 4 years old, 26.1% aged 5 years old, and 8.4% aged 6 years old) and their parents were enrolled in the present study by means of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Preschool Children, Correlation
Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Annika Rademacher; Jelena Zumbach; Ute Koglin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Parenting styles act as a risk or a protective factor for the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. Moreover, children with deficits in emotion regulation often show increased aggressive behaviors. Previous studies confirm that parenting style also contributes to the development of emotion dysregulation. The present longitudinal…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Development, Child Behavior, Emotional Response
Strugarek, Perrine; Wendland, Jaqueline – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Toddlers' sleep difficulties have mainly been investigated from the mother's point of view, despite the fact that paternal implication seems to influence young children's sleep quality. This qualitative study aims to better understand how fathers experience toddlers' sleep difficulties by examining their sleep-related cognitions and strategies…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Fathers, Sleep, Problem Solving
Eti, Inanç – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate the predictive effects of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about emotions on the social skills and problem behaviours of preschoolers. The study involved 227 mothers of 3-6-year-old preschool children (M[subscript age] = 63 months). Two hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to determine to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Beliefs, Parent Attitudes
Caihong Zhang; Liting Xia; Aruna Wu – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Electronic product use among preschool children is gradually widespread. To explore whether and how electronic product use causes problem behaviours in preschool children, this study analyses the relationships between the degree of electronic product use, problem behaviours, and the roles of parenting styles and parent-child relationships in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Parent Child Relationship
Jin Sun; Xiaohui Xu; Kerry Lee; So Sum Chow; Yushu Wang; Li Zhang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The development of self-regulation is influenced by children's experiences at home, with parenting styles and parenting stress being important contextual factors. However, little is known about how parenting styles and stress are related to the emotional (hot) and cognitive (cool) aspects of self-regulation. This study examined the relationships…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Parent Child Relationship
Mathew C. Luehring; Laura Lee McIntyre – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Children with developmental delays (DD) are at heightened risk for developing behavior problems, which contribute to parenting stress and caregiving burden. There is an established relation between parenting behaviors and child developmental outcomes with less known about parent--child interactions in young children with DD. The present study…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Child Behavior
Yingjie Wang; Qianqian Xia; Liyue Gu; Feng Li – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Currently, work-family conflict of college teachers is a common issue, especially when their children are in the preschool stage, which will directly affect the children's problem behaviors. This study aims to explore the relationship between parental work-family conflict and children's problem behaviors, and the mediating role of parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Employed Parents, Family Work Relationship
Soydan, Sema Büyüktaskapu; Akalin, Nihal – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study investigated the moderating effect of the self-regulation skills of children on their temperamental traits and on the mother's parenting behaviour. The random sampling method was used to obtain the study's participants: 253 children attending pre-school and their mothers. Research data was collected using the 'The child behaviour list…
Descriptors: Self Control, Child Behavior, Personality Traits, Parent Child Relationship
