Wu Zhongling, Zhang Dianyue, Chen Lichun, Chen Liang, Zhang Wenxin
Faculty of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.
Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Sep 1;16:1616138. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1616138. eCollection 2025.
Parental involvement during early childhood is crucial for promoting children's social development. However, few studies have explored both maternal and paternal involvement and their combined effects on children's social adjustment.
The person-centered approach was conducted to examine the profiles of maternal and paternal involvement in a sample of 535 Chinese families with preschool children. Furthermore, the present study investigated the associations between these parental involvement profiles and preschoolers' social adjustment.
Latent profile analysis identified a total of four profiles of parental involvement: profile (21.9%), profile (38.1%), profile (28.2%), and (11.8%). Children in and profiles exhibited higher social skills compared to those in lower-involvement profiles. These findings enhance our understanding of home-based parental involvement patterns and their associations with preschoolers' social development.
幼儿期父母的参与对于促进儿童的社会发展至关重要。然而,很少有研究探讨母亲和父亲的参与情况以及他们对儿童社会适应的综合影响。
采用以人为主的方法,对535个有学龄前儿童的中国家庭样本中母亲和父亲的参与情况进行剖析。此外,本研究调查了这些父母参与情况与学龄前儿童社会适应之间的关联。
潜在剖面分析共识别出四种父母参与情况:剖面(21.9%)、剖面(38.1%)、剖面(28.2%)和剖面(11.8%)。与参与度较低的剖面中的儿童相比,剖面和剖面中的儿童表现出更高的社交技能。这些发现增进了我们对家庭中父母参与模式及其与学龄前儿童社会发展关联的理解。