Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 279-286.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.03.04

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Marital Conflict and Preschool Children's Parenting Styles: The Moderating Role of Parental Emotion Regulation Strategies

WANG Mingzhu1, ZOU Hong1, LI Xiaowei2, ZHANG Wenjuan3,1, WANG Yingqian1,4   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    3. Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072;
    4. Department of Psychology in School of Environment and Public Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035
  • Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15

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Abstract: The present study aimed at exploring the differential associations of marital conflict with authoritative parenting and authoritarian parenting, and the moderating role of parental emotion regulation strategies. 285 preschoolers' parents participated in the questionnaire survey. The results showed that: (1) Marital conflict could negatively predict authoritative parenting and positively predict authoritarian parenting in parents of preschoolers while the difference in the magnitude of the associations was nonsignificant. (2) Parental emotion regulation strategies moderated the relation between marital conflict and authoritative parenting, for both fathers and mothers. For parents who used fewer cognitive reappraisal strategies or more expression suppression strategies, marital conflict could negatively predict authoritative parenting. However, the prediction effect was not significant for parents who used more cognitive reappraisal strategies or fewer expression suppression strategies. In addition, the moderating effect of parental emotion regulation strategies on the relation between marital conflict and authoritarian parenting was not found.

Key words: parenting styles, marital conflict, parental emotion regulation strategies, preschool children

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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