The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation
Abstract Chinese first-born children need to learn how to get along with their siblings after the implementation of the universal two-child policy in 2016. We investigated the relationships between temperament, parenting style, and psychological adjustment among firstborns. The current study employe...
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| author | Guoying Qian Sijie Yang Ruonan Li Gang Dou |
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| description | Abstract Chinese first-born children need to learn how to get along with their siblings after the implementation of the universal two-child policy in 2016. We investigated the relationships between temperament, parenting style, and psychological adjustment among firstborns. The current study employed a questionnaire survey conducted in four regions in China. A total of 524 Chinese two-child families participated in the study; the firstborns were between 3 and 8 years old and their younger siblings were between 1 month and 5 years old. The results indicated that (1) children’s temperament subscales were significantly related to parenting style subscales and psychological adaptation. Moreover, the parenting style subscales were significantly related to psychological adaptation, and (2) authoritarian parenting partially mediated the relationship between approach or withdrawal and psychological adjustment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e11feb53d6f455ab8c43f0ef7ca6c802022-12-22T02:45:51ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-08-011211710.1038/s41598-022-17897-3The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptationGuoying Qian0Sijie Yang1Ruonan Li2Gang Dou3College of Preschool Education, Capital Normal UniversityHeping Street Kindergarten of Chaoyang DistrictCollege of Preschool Education, Capital Normal UniversitySchool of Education, Hubei University of Arts and ScienceAbstract Chinese first-born children need to learn how to get along with their siblings after the implementation of the universal two-child policy in 2016. We investigated the relationships between temperament, parenting style, and psychological adjustment among firstborns. The current study employed a questionnaire survey conducted in four regions in China. A total of 524 Chinese two-child families participated in the study; the firstborns were between 3 and 8 years old and their younger siblings were between 1 month and 5 years old. The results indicated that (1) children’s temperament subscales were significantly related to parenting style subscales and psychological adaptation. Moreover, the parenting style subscales were significantly related to psychological adaptation, and (2) authoritarian parenting partially mediated the relationship between approach or withdrawal and psychological adjustment.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17897-3 |
| spellingShingle | Guoying Qian Sijie Yang Ruonan Li Gang Dou The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation Scientific Reports |
| title | The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| title_full | The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| title_fullStr | The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| title_short | The mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first-born children’s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| title_sort | mediating effect of parenting style on the relationship between first born children s temperament and psychological adaptation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17897-3 |
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