Chinese children's effortful control and dispositional anger/frustration: relations to parenting styles and children's social functioning.
Relations among authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles, children's effortful control and dispositional anger/frustration, and children's social functioning were examined for 425 first and second graders (7-10 years old) in Beijing, China. Parents reported on parenting styles; parents and teachers rated children's effortful control, anger/frustration, externalizing problems, and socially appropriate behaviors: and peers rated aggression and leadership/sociability. High effortful control and low dispositional anger/frustration uniquely predicted Chinese children's high social functioning, and the relation of anger/frustration to social functioning was moderated by effortful control. Authoritarian parenting was associated with children's low effortful control and high dispositional anger/frustration, which (especially effortful control) mediated the negative relation between authoritarian parenting and children's social functioning. Effortful control weakly mediated the positive relation of authoritative parenting to social functioning.
Zhou
Qing
Q
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA. qing.zhou@asu.edu
Eisenberg
Nancy
N
Wang
Yun
Y
Reiser
Mark
M
D000786:Anger; D001318:Authoritarianism; D002648:Child; D002681:China; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012919:Social Behavior; D012928:Social Desirability; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires