Parenting style and young children's executive function mediate the relationship between parenting stress and parenting quality in two-child families.

ABSTRACT: This study explored the relationship between parenting stress, parenting style, parenting quality, and young children's executive function. In total, 243 firstborns aged 2-9 years old (SD = 3.82) and their parents from two-child families in Beijing participated in the study, which used executive function tasks and parenting questionnaires. The results found that (1) parenting stress negatively predicted parenting quality; (2) parenting style partially mediated the relationship between parenting stress and parenting quality; (3) children's executive function partially mediated the relationship between parenting stress and parenting quality; and (4) the spoiled, democratic, permissive, and authoritarian parenting styles each play a chain mediating role with young children's executive functio

SUBMITTER: Qian G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009342 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature