Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 563-568.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.05.07

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The Relation between Having or Not Having the Second Child and the Parenting Sense of Competence: The Moderating Effect of Parental Attachment in the First Child

LI Tiantian1, WANG Juanjuan2, GU Jiyou1, XU Hewen1   

  1. 1. Faculty of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250000;
    2. Shandong Yiheng Institute of Psychology, Jinan 250000
  • Published:2020-09-12

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Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between having or not having the second child and the parenting sense of competence. We also investigated the moderating effect of parental attachment in the first child to the above relation. We selected 650 primary and middle school students as samples and used the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale and parent-child attachment security questionnaire. Students were asked to report their parent-child attachment on Kerns Security Scale-C. Parents were asked to report parenting sense of competence on Parenting Sense of Competence Scale. The study found that: (1) The parenting sense of competence of parents in the two-child family is higher than that of the parents of the single child family;(2) The mother-child attachment of the first child can moderate the relation between having or not having second child and the parenting sense of competence: For the group that scores high in the mother-child attachment on Kerns Security Scale-C, having or not having second child could not predict the parenting sense of competence difference. For the group that scores low in the mother-child attachment on Kerns Security Scale-C, having or not having second child significantly affects the parenting sense of competence;(3) The moderating effect of father-son attachment is insignificant.

Key words: second child, the parenting sense of competence, father-child attachment, mother-child attachment

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  • B844
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