Effects of parental rearing patterns and their consistency on the emotional and behavioral problems of preschool children
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2020.03.008
- VernacularTitle:父母教养方式及其一致性与学龄前儿童情绪和行为问题的关联研究
- Author:
Changshan ZOU
1
;
Peng DING
;
Menglong GENG
;
Xiaoyan WU
;
Shiyue LI
;
Shuman TAO
;
Lei WANG
;
Jia CHEN
;
Lei PENG
;
Sumei WANG
;
Gangzhu YIN
;
Anhui ZHANG
;
Hong DENG
;
Yinxia TANG
;
Yuqiao MA
;
Huiping HUANG
;
Min XIANG
;
Fangbiao TAO
Author Information
1. 安徽医科大学公共卫生学院儿少卫生与妇幼保健学系 人口健康与优生安徽省重点实验室，合肥 230032
- Keywords:
Child, preschool;
Emotions;
Behavior;
Cross-sectional studies;
Rearing styles
- From:
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
2020;54(3):283-288
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore the effect of parental rearing patterns and their consistency on the emotional and behavioral problems of preschool children.Methods:From October to November 2017, 27 987 children aged 3 to 6 years old from 109 kindergartens in 11 cities of Hubei, Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces were selected by using the cluster sampling method. A total of 27 200 valid questionnaires which were completed by subjects' parents were collected. The emotional and behavioral problems of preschool children were collected by "strengths and difficulties questionnaire" and the parental rearing patterns were evaluated by the "Parental Behavior Scale". The differences in emotional and behavioral abnormality rates of preschool children with different characteristics were analyzed; with emotional and behavioral problems as dependent variables and parental support/participation and compulsion/hostility as independent variables, the multivariate logistic regression model was used to analyze the effect of parental rearing patterns and their consistency on the emotional and behavioral problems of preschool children.Results:The age of children was (4.35±0.96) years old, and 51.4% of children were 13 975 males. There were 24 634 (90.6%) urban children and 17 916 (65.9%) only children. Both parents with strong support/participation accounted for 14.9%, and those with poor support/participation accounted for 11.9%; both parents with strong compulsion/hostility accounted for 15.2%, and those with low compulsion/hostility accounted for 11.3%. The rates of emotional symptoms, conduct behavior, hyperactive behavior, peer interaction, total difficulty score, and abnormal prosocial behavior of preschool children were 9.5%, 9.5%, 18.2%, 24.5%, 11.2%, and 10.2%, respectively. The multivariate logistic regression model analysis showed that after adjusting for gender, only child, living area, family economic status, mother′s age and education level, father′s education level, and other factors, compared with fathers/mothers with strong support/participation and low compulsion/hostility and parents with strong support/participation and low compulsion/hostility, preschool children who had fathers/mothers with poor support/participation and strong compulsion/hostility or parents with poor support/participation and strong compulsion/hostility were more likely to have emotional symptoms, conduct behavior, hyperactive behavior, peer interaction, total difficulty score, and abnormal prosocial behavior ( P<0.05). Conclusions:Parental rearing patterns and their consistency are related to the emotional and behavioral problems of preschool children.
