Jung Awoun, Ishibashi Mikako, Shinya Yuta, Itakura Shoji
Department of Psychology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan.
Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2024 May 17;15:1346428. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1346428. eCollection 2024.
Grit is known to be effective for long-term academic and social success. However, few studies have focused on the role of grit in parenting and its effect on the development of grit in children. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of maternal grit on children's effortful control (EC), which is thought to be a precursor to grit, using parenting as a mediating factor. Participants in the current study were 412 children (age range: 18-21 months, = 34.67 months, = 4.51 months) and their mothers. We assessed maternal grit, parenting style, maternal EC, and child EC, and found that maternal grit, maternal EC, and parenting style were positively correlated with child EC. Furthermore, maternal grit was related to EC in children not only directly, but also indirectly through responsive parenting. Additionally, maternal grit was found to be directly related to child EC only when assessed separately from maternal EC. The current study's findings suggest that maternal grit is directly related to EC in children in a way that differs from the mother's EC in child-rearing situations.
众所周知，坚毅对长期的学业和社交成功很有效。然而，很少有研究关注坚毅在养育子女中的作用及其对儿童坚毅发展的影响。因此，本研究以养育方式作为中介因素，调查了母亲的坚毅对儿童努力控制（EC）的影响，而努力控制被认为是坚毅的一个先兆。本研究的参与者是412名儿童（年龄范围：18 - 21个月，平均年龄 = 34.67个月，标准差 = 4.51个月）及其母亲。我们评估了母亲的坚毅、养育方式、母亲的努力控制和儿童的努力控制，发现母亲的坚毅、母亲的努力控制和养育方式与儿童的努力控制呈正相关。此外，母亲的坚毅不仅直接与儿童的努力控制有关，还通过积极回应式养育方式间接相关。此外，只有在与母亲的努力控制分开评估时，才发现母亲的坚毅与儿童的努力控制直接相关。本研究的结果表明，母亲的坚毅与儿童的努力控制直接相关，其方式与母亲在育儿情境中的努力控制不同。
