Parental self-efficacy and comforting behaviour of the firstborn children in different situations: the mediating role of sibling relationships

The cost of pleasing social expectations: A serial mediation of Israeli mothers’ anxiety and depression in the relationship between defensiveness and parental self-efficacy

“…Since parental self-efficacy is a key variable for predicting various parental and child outcomes (see for example, Cao et al, 2022; Harpaz et al, 2021), a growing number of studies have focused on it (see for example, Bentley & Zamir, 2021; Saleh et al, 2022). Given that defensiveness is based on threat perception and avoidant reactions in a way that meets social expectations at the expense of authentic expression, I hypothesized that higher levels of defensiveness would predict lower levels of parental self-efficacy.…”