Wang Jia, Liu Ru-De, Lin Jingmin
Teachers' College, Beijing Union University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2025 Feb 13;19(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s13034-025-00863-y.
Building upon previous research suggesting that parental psychological flexibility is negatively associate with children's behavioral problems, this study examined a moderated mediation model to explore the effect of parental psychological flexibility on children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Specifically, parent-child conflict is considered as a mediator while parental phubbing is examined as a moderator.
This study employed a cross-sectional design, with a total of 1060 parents of preschool-aged children participating. The parents completed a series of surveys, including the Parental Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire, the short form of the Child-Parent Relationship Scale, the Parental Phubbing Scale, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire regarding their children. The moderated mediation model was assessed using SPSS PROCESS 4.1.
The results indicated that parental psychological flexibility negatively predicted children's behavioral problems through the mediating effect of parent-child conflict, with this relationship being moderated by parental phubbing; an increase in phubbing weakened the negative correlation between parental psychological flexibility and parent-child conflict, thereby further weakened the negative correlation between parental psychological flexibility and children's behavioral problems.
These findings offer potential strategies for parents to mitigate the risk of their children developing internalizing or externalizing problems, by enhancing parental psychological flexibility and reducing instances of phubbing behavior.
基于先前的研究表明父母心理灵活性与儿童行为问题呈负相关，本研究考察了一个有调节的中介模型，以探讨父母心理灵活性对儿童内化和外化问题的影响。具体而言，亲子冲突被视为中介变量，而父母冷落则被视为调节变量。
本研究采用横断面设计，共有1060名学龄前儿童的父母参与。父母们完成了一系列调查问卷，包括父母心理灵活性问卷、亲子关系量表简版、父母冷落量表以及关于其子女的长处与困难问卷。使用SPSS PROCESS 4.1评估有调节的中介模型。
结果表明，父母心理灵活性通过亲子冲突的中介作用对儿童行为问题产生负向预测作用，且这种关系受到父母冷落的调节；冷落的增加削弱了父母心理灵活性与亲子冲突之间的负相关，从而进一步削弱了父母心理灵活性与儿童行为问题之间的负相关。
这些研究结果为父母提供了潜在策略，通过提高父母心理灵活性和减少冷落行为的发生，来降低孩子出现内化或外化问题的风险。
