The Relationship between Social Support and the Parenting Sense of Competence of Preschoolers’Fathers:The Mediator Role of Psychological Capital  

作　　者：YUAN Haojie YUE Yaping WU Dandan 

机构地区：[1]Faculty of Education,Henan University,Kaifeng 475004,China [2]Faculty of Education and Human Development,The Education University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong 999077,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Education in China》2024年第1期61-82,共22页中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）

基　　金：funded by the National Education Science Planning 2017 Project“Research on Ecological Family Support Mechanism and Operation Strategies for Preschool Children”(No.BHA170142).

摘　　要：Social support is an essential source of support for preschool children’s fathers to alleviate parenting anxiety,deal with parenting pressure,improve parenting methods,and enhance parenting sense of competence.Psychological capital serves as a critical psychological resource for preschoolers’fathers,helping them cope with parenting stress and enhancing parenting efficacy.To explore the mediating mechanism of psychological capital between social support and the parenting sense of competence of preschoolers’fathers,this study employs stratified sampling to survey 678 fathers from three cities of Henan province in China.The survey instruments mainly consist of the Social Support Rating Scale,Psychological Capital Questionnaire,and Parenting Sense of Competence Scale.Research findings show that social support,psychological capital,and fathers’parenting sense of competence are at the middle level.Significant positive correlations exist among social support,psychological capital,and parenting sense of competence.Social support can positively predict fathers’parenting sense of competence,while psychological capital partially mediates between social support and parenting sense of competence.Therefore,it is possible to increase social support for preschool children’s fathers and improve their psychological capital to relieve their parenting pressure,enhance their parenting participation,and strengthen their parenting sense of competence.

关 键 词：fathers of preschoolers parenting sense of competence social support psychological capital 

分 类 号：G444[哲学宗教—心理学]