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Relations of parenting style to Chinese children's effortful control, ego resilience, and maladjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2009

Nancy Eisenberg ,
Lei Chang ,
Yue Ma  and
Xiaorui Huang
Nancy Eisenberg*
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Lei Chang
Affiliation:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yue Ma
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Xiaorui Huang
Affiliation:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Nancy Eisenberg, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104; E-mail: Nancy.Eisenberg@asu.edu.
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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the relations of authoritative parenting and corporal punishment to Chinese first and second graders' effortful control (EC), impulsivity, ego resilience, and maladjustment, as well as mediating relations. A parent and teacher reported on children's EC, impulsivity, and ego resilience; parents reported on children's internalizing symptoms and their own parenting, and teachers and peers reported on children's externalizing symptoms. Authoritative parenting and low corporal punishment predicted high EC, and EC mediated the relation between parenting and externalizing problems. In addition, impulsivity mediated the relation of corporal punishment to externalizing problems. The relation of parenting to children's ego resilience was mediated by EC and/or impulsivity, and ego resilience mediated the relations of EC and impulsivity to internalizing problems.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 455 - 477
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