Relationship between Authoritative Parenting Style and Preschool Children’s Emotion Regulation:A Moderated Mediation Model  

作　　者：Yan Jin Wei Chen 

机构地区：[1]School of Education Sciences,Huizhou University,Huizhou,516007,China

出　　处：《International Journal of Mental Health Promotion》2024年第3期189-198,共10页国际心理健康促进杂志（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Science Project(Grant No.GD22CJY12);the Young Innovation Talent Project of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2022WTSCX112);the Key Construction Discipline of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2022ZDJS061)to Yan Jin.

摘　　要：An authoritative parenting style has been shown to promote children’s emotion regulation in European-American family studies.However,little is known about how sleep problems and the child’s sibling status in Chinese families affect this relationship.Based on family system theory,this study attempts to better understand the relationship between authoritative parenting style and emotion regulation.Mothers of preschool children in Chinese kindergartens completed questionnaires about their children’s sleep habits,their authoritative parenting styles,and children’s emotion regulation.A total of 531 children participated in this study.Results showed that authoritative parenting was positively associated with emotional regulation.Sleep problems mediated the effects of authoritative parenting style on emotion regulation.The child’s sibling status moderated the mediating effects of sleep problems in authoritative parenting and emotion regulation relationships.Specifically,the relationship between the authoritative parenting style and sleep problems was significant for only children,while birth order had no significant influence on the authoritative parenting style and sleep problems in two-child families.These findings suggest that a lowauthoritative parenting style predicts low emotion regulation through sleep problems,and this depends on the child’s sibling status,indicating that children without siblings may impair emotion regulation due to increased sleep problems.

关 键 词：Sleep problem emotional regulation authoritative parenting child’s sibling status preschool children 

分 类 号：R395[哲学宗教—心理学]