Shyness and Socio-Emotional Adjustment in Early Childhood in Mainland China: Exploring the Roles of Maternal Parenting Practices and Beliefs about Shyness

Xiao, Bowen; Zhu, Li; Kong, Xiaoxue; Li, Yan; Coplan, Robert J.

doi:10.1007/s10826-022-02416-9

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“…Research with a more diverse group of parents is needed to determine generalizability of results to other populations. There are many within, and across, cultural differences in maternal beliefs in other domains (e.g., Xiao et al, 2023), and we suspect the same is true regarding maternal beliefs about friendship. In addition to culture (and race and education), it is critical in future research to consider factors other than the ones examined herein that may also be hypothesized to play a role in maternal beliefs, such as personality and behavioural characteristics of their children, characteristics of children's actual friendships (e.g., friendship quality), and the quality of mothers' own friendship experiences (Glick et al, 2013).…”

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“…Maternal beliefs have been defined as a type of social cognition that includes several cognitive and affective processes and mental representations that mothers construct from experiences (Rubin & Mills, 1992). Past research has focused primarily on maternal (rather than paternal) beliefs (Settipani & Kendall, 2017; Xiao et al., 2023), with an emphasis on maternal beliefs pertaining to socioemotional and behavioural development (e.g., beliefs about how and why aggressive behaviour develops; Mills & Rubin, 1992; Sawyer et al., 2011; Xiao et al., 2023). Relatively little research, however, has focused on mothers' beliefs about their children's interpersonal relationships, and specifically their friendships .…”

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“…Past research highlights several sources of variability in maternal beliefs about child social development, such as child gender and child age (Mills & Rubin, 1992; Smetana & Daddis, 2002). Other sources of variability include parents' experiences in the broader community (Cheah & Rubin, 2004; Mills & Rubin, 1990), their own educational and occupational histories (Okagaki & Divecha, 1993), and their children's behaviours and characteristics (Settipani & Kendall, 2017; Xiao et al., 2023). In the present study, we evaluated child age and gender as potential sources of variability, as these child characteristics have also been identified as two of the most robust sources of individual differences in the friendship literature (Rubin et al., 2015).…”

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The goals of this study were to examine maternal beliefs about the primary benefits and costs of their children's time spent with friends, and to explore child age and gender differences in these beliefs. Participants were N = 512 mothers (Mchildage = 10.18 years; 11% ethnic minority). Open‐ended responses to questions about the benefits and costs were coded and analysed, with results indicating that mothers consider opportunities for social skills and social‐cognitive development a primary benefit of spending time with friends. Negative friend influence was the most commonly cited cost of friendship. Child age was associated with a number of maternal beliefs (e.g., mothers of adolescents were more likely than mothers of young children to report intimacy as a benefit), but child gender was not. Findings highlight the importance of considering child age in studies of maternal beliefs about friendship and set the stage for future research in this area.

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Child emotional problems: Associations with maternal distress and parenting practices

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ObjectiveThe primary aim of the present study was to explore the associations among COVID‐19 distress, maternal parenting practices (e.g., adaptive and maladaptive parenting), COVID‐19 exposure, and emotional problems of preschoolers (ages 3 to 6) in Chinese culture.BackgroundIn the current study, we focused on Shanghai kindergarteners who, due to the complete COVID‐19 citywide lockdown, experienced an interruption in learning and social interaction.MethodParticipants were 382 mothers of children (Mage = 5.49 years, SD = 0.62; 53.4% boys) from one kindergarten in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Upon obtaining consent, mothers completed the measures (administered via an online survey website) of COVID‐19 exposure, COVID‐19 distress, and maternal parenting practices and child's emotional problems.ResultsOur main finding showed that the relation between COVID‐19 exposure and children's emotional problems is serially explained by COVID‐19 distress and maladaptive parenting.ConclusionThe COVID‐19 pandemic has induced and exacerbated a variety of stressors that impact mothers' parenting behavior, which in turn exacerbated child emotional problems.ImplicationsThis research adds to our understanding of the negative impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on Chinese families.

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The COVID-19 lockdown has forced young children to spend more time on media and significantly impacted their mothers’ mental health. This study explored how mothers’ individual distress influences children’s problematic media use during the Shanghai citywide lockdown caused by COVID-19. Data were collected from 1889 Chinese mothers (Mage = 34.69 years, SD = 3.94 years) with preschoolers aged 3–6 years (Mage = 4.38 years, SD = 1.06 years; 49.0% boys) via an online survey. The statistical analyses relied on SPSS Statistics version 26.0 and macro-program PROCESS 3.3. to investigate the associations and mediation analysis among all the study variables. The results indicated a positive association between maternal distress and children’s problematic media use, mediated by parenting stress and maladaptive parenting. Specifically, the serial mediation analysis revealed that high levels of maternal distress exacerbate parenting stress, which in turn leads to maladaptive parenting practices. These maladaptive practices subsequently increase problematic media use in preschool children. The findings highlighted that parents need to enhance their ability to manage risk and promote mental health during periods of significant stress and routine disruption to reduce children’s problematic media use.

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Shyness and Socio-Emotional Adjustment in Early Childhood in Mainland China: Exploring the Roles of Maternal Parenting Practices and Beliefs about Shyness

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Maternal beliefs about the benefits and costs of child and adolescent friendship

Maternal beliefs about the benefits and costs of child and adolescent friendship

Child emotional problems: Associations with maternal distress and parenting practices

Maternal distress, parenting stress, maladaptive parenting and children’s problematic media use in China: evidence from 2022 spring in Shanghai

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