Parental emotional warmth and psychological Suzhi as mediators between socioeconomic status and problem behaviours in Chinese children |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Psychology, Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Tiansheng Road, No. 2, Beibei District, Chongqing 400715, China;2. Faculty of Psychology, Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;3. Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Psychology, Gutenbergstr. 18, D-35032 Marburg, Germany;1. University of Illinois, Illinois, United States;2. Fordham University, New York, United States;3. Columbia University, New York, United States;4. China Youth University of Political Studies, Beijing, China;1. Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, Guangzhou University, 602 Xing Zheng Xi Building, No. 230 Wai Huan Xi Road, Guangzhou 510006 China;2. Institute of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China;3. Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, Central China Normal University, China |
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| Abstract: | ObjectiveThis study investigated psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and problem behaviours in Chinese children.MethodsParticipants were 1128 children (556 females) from two Chinese elementary schools, aged 8–13 years (M = 10.82, SD = 1.26), attending the 3rd–6th grades. Children provided self-report on parental emotional warmth and psychological suzhi, whereas parents reported on SES and problem behaviours.ResultsData analyses, including structural equation modelling (SEM)—employed to test a three-path mediation effect of parental emotional warmth and psychological suzhi after controlling for gender and grade—revealed that: (1) SES, parental emotional warmth, and psychological suzhi were negatively correlated with children's problem behaviours; (2) SES indirectly affected children's psychological suzhi through parental emotional warmth; (3) psychological suzhi mediated the relation between parental emotional warmth and problem behaviours; and (4) children belonging to families with low SES were less likely to receive emotional support from their parents. This significantly predicted low psychological suzhi levels, which in turn negatively affected problem behaviours.ConclusionsStrategies that help parents provide warmth and support and those that help children improve psychological suzhi may help reduce problem behaviours in vulnerable groups. |
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