Citation

Fung WK, Chung KKH, Lam CB. Fam. Process 2021; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/famp.12688

PMID

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Abstract

This longitudinal study examined the associations between child negative affect, parental self-efficacy (PSE), and parents' approaches to the provision of supportive socialization. It also investigated the bidirectionality between PSE, problem-focus socialization, and emotion-focus socialization across two time points separated by one year. Participants were 757 Hong Kong Chinese parents (47.4% fathers) of kindergarten children. At both time 1 and time 2, parents reported their PSE, problem-focus socialization, and emotion-focus socialization. Additionally, parents rated their child's negative affect at time 1.

RESULTS from the cross-lagged panel model revealed that, controlling for the effects of school's socioeconomic strata, child gender, parental age, and educational level, PSE at time 1 mediated the indirect links of child negative affect at time 1 with problem-focus (indirect effect: β = -.02, SE = .02, p < .05) and emotion-focus (indirect effect: β = -.02, SE = .01, p < .05) socialization at time 2 and that PSE (β = .10, SE = .06, p < .01) and problem-focus socialization (β = .15, SE = .03, p < .05) were reciprocally associated with each other.

FINDINGS underscored the role of PSE in understanding parental provision of supportive socialization and the co-development of belief about parenting and parenting behaviors.

Language: en

Keywords

afecto negativo; autoeficacia de los padres; bidireccionalidad; Bidirectionality; Emotion-focus socialization; Negative affect; Parental self-efficacy; Problem-focus socialization; socialización centrada en las emociones; socialización centrada en los problemas; 双向性; 情绪焦点社会化; 父母自我效能感; 负面情感; 问题焦点社会化