Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills
IntroductionThe detection rate of externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese children has been increasing year by year. Before the age of six, the problem behaviors that appear in children are predominantly externalizing problem behaviors. Family is the starting point for children's socializ...
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| description | IntroductionThe detection rate of externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese children has been increasing year by year. Before the age of six, the problem behaviors that appear in children are predominantly externalizing problem behaviors. Family is the starting point for children's socialization. Although some studies have explored the impact of parenting styles on children's externalizing problem behaviors, only a few have explored the underlying mechanisms driving this relationship.MethodsThis study attempts to fill this gap by investigating how self-control abilities and emotional management skills mediate the relationship between parenting styles and preschoolers' externalizing problem behaviors. Here, teachers and parents of 799 preschoolers from China were surveyed.ResultsThe findings of this investigation are 3-fold: (1) a significant association exists between the parenting styles adopted by parents and externalizing problem behaviors observed among preschoolers; (2) self-control abilities and emotional management skills independently mediate the associations between parenting styles and children's externalizing problem behaviors, highlighting their roles as mediators; and (3) sequential mediation of self-control abilities and emotional management skills elucidates a pathway through which parenting styles impact preschoolers' externalizing problem behaviors.DiscussionThis study clarified the relationship between parenting styles, externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers, self-control abilities, and emotional management skills to provide a theoretical basis for solving the externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bfeeb2f0bbe24a628a2a54440e85663e2025-02-05T07:32:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-02-011610.3389/fpsyg.2025.14332621433262Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skillsZhang WenLi0Xu Tiemei1Li Shuangqi2Yu Qun3Zhu Jingbo4Sun Sijie5Normal College, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, ChinaSchool of Educational Science, Nantong University, Nantong, ChinaShanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Shanghai, ChinaQinglong Central Kindergarten, Changzhou, ChinaYinhai Yunfeng Kindergarten, Changzhou, ChinaNormal College, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, ChinaIntroductionThe detection rate of externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese children has been increasing year by year. Before the age of six, the problem behaviors that appear in children are predominantly externalizing problem behaviors. Family is the starting point for children's socialization. Although some studies have explored the impact of parenting styles on children's externalizing problem behaviors, only a few have explored the underlying mechanisms driving this relationship.MethodsThis study attempts to fill this gap by investigating how self-control abilities and emotional management skills mediate the relationship between parenting styles and preschoolers' externalizing problem behaviors. Here, teachers and parents of 799 preschoolers from China were surveyed.ResultsThe findings of this investigation are 3-fold: (1) a significant association exists between the parenting styles adopted by parents and externalizing problem behaviors observed among preschoolers; (2) self-control abilities and emotional management skills independently mediate the associations between parenting styles and children's externalizing problem behaviors, highlighting their roles as mediators; and (3) sequential mediation of self-control abilities and emotional management skills elucidates a pathway through which parenting styles impact preschoolers' externalizing problem behaviors.DiscussionThis study clarified the relationship between parenting styles, externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers, self-control abilities, and emotional management skills to provide a theoretical basis for solving the externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1433262/fullparenting styleschild psychologypreschoolerexternalizing problem behaviorsemotional managementself-control |
| spellingShingle | Zhang WenLi Xu Tiemei Li Shuangqi Yu Qun Zhu Jingbo Sun Sijie Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills Frontiers in Psychology parenting styles child psychology preschooler externalizing problem behaviors emotional management self-control |
| title | Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills |
| title_full | Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills |
| title_fullStr | Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills |
| title_short | Parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers: mediation through self-control abilities and emotional management skills |
| title_sort | parenting styles and externalizing problem behaviors of preschoolers mediation through self control abilities and emotional management skills |
| topic | parenting styles child psychology preschooler externalizing problem behaviors emotional management self-control |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1433262/full |
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