Yang Peiyi, Yang Lin, Liu Xuerong, Feng Zhengzhi
Department of Mental Health Education, Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College, Chongqing, China.
Shanhu Experimental Primary School, Chongqing, China.
Front Pediatr. 2025 Sep 10;13:1640094. doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1640094. eCollection 2025.
This study examined the interactive effects of parental burnout and parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) on childhood social anxiety using response surface analysis (RSA).
This cross-sectional study was conducted between November and December 2024 in primary schools in Chongqing, China. Participants (parents and their children) were required to complete online questionnaires, including the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA), the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ), and the Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC). RSA and polynomial regression models examined the non-linear interactions between parental burnout, parenting styles, and childhood social anxiety.
A total of 724 datasets were included in the study. The findings indicated that significant congruence effects emerged for permissive parenting and parental burnout, and an inverted U-shaped curvature appeared along the line of incongruence with childhood social anxiety (curvature, a4 = -0.70, = 0.009; slope a3 = -0.57, = 0.272). Moreover, the curvature (a2 = -0.28, = 0.089) and slope (a1 = 0.81, = 0.068) were measured along the line of congruence, indicating that the line of congruence section curve is linearly rising.
This study identifies a significant interactive effect between parental burnout and permissive parenting style on childhood social anxiety, highlighting the need for two-pronged interventions. Future research should investigate the longitudinal causal pathways between parental burnout-parenting style congruence and child social anxiety across diverse cultural contexts.
本研究采用响应面分析（RSA）探讨父母倦怠与教养方式（权威型、专制型和放任型）对儿童社交焦虑的交互作用。
本横断面研究于2024年11月至12月在中国重庆的小学进行。参与者（父母及其子女）需完成在线问卷，包括父母倦怠评估量表（PBA）、教养方式与维度问卷（PSDQ）以及儿童社交焦虑量表（SASC）。RSA和多项式回归模型检验了父母倦怠、教养方式与儿童社交焦虑之间的非线性相互作用。
本研究共纳入724个数据集。研究结果表明，放任型教养方式与父母倦怠之间存在显著的一致性效应，并且在与儿童社交焦虑不一致的方向上呈现倒U形曲线（曲率，a4 = -0.70，p = 0.009；斜率a3 = -0.57，p = 0.272）。此外，在一致性方向上测量了曲率（a2 = -0.28，p = 0.089）和斜率（a1 = 0.81，p = 0.068），表明一致性部分曲线呈线性上升。
本研究确定了父母倦怠与放任型教养方式对儿童社交焦虑存在显著的交互作用，强调了双管齐下干预措施的必要性。未来的研究应在不同文化背景下，调查父母倦怠与教养方式一致性和儿童社交焦虑之间的纵向因果路径。
