ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2025
The effect of parental psychological flexibility on children's behavioral problems: a moderated mediation model.
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- Psychological Flexibility as a Mediator Between Parenting Stress and Depression Among Chinese Primary Caregivers of Infants: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Parental Self-Efficacy and Child Externalizing and Internalizing Problems during Wartime: the Indirect Effects of Parental Submission and Power Struggles.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Children's Problem Behaviors and Maternal Parenting Psychological Flexibility: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Family dysfunction, parenting stress, and child mental health: associations with bullying involvement and the moderating role of neighborhood support.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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backgroundBuilding 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.
methodsThis 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.
resultsThe 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.
conclusionThese 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.
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