Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 626-634.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.05.03

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The Influence of Mother's Perception of Coparenting on Behavior Problems among Preschoolers: A Moderated Mediation Model

LIU Xiaojie, LI Yan   

  1. College of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234
  • Published:2022-09-14

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Abstract: To explore the relationship between mother's perception of coparenting and children's behavior problems, as well as the mediating effect of marital conflict and moderating role of children's psychological resilience, this study applied One-year longitudinal design to survey 170 preschoolers' mothers from two kindergartens in Shanghai. The findings of the study were as follows:(1) Mother's perception of coparenting was negatively correlated with marital conflict and children's behavior problems; (2) Marital conflict played a mediating role between mother's perception of coparenting and children's behavior problems; (3) Children's psychological resilience moderated the relationship between martial conflict and children's behavior problems. That is, children's psychological resilience moderated the second half path of mediating effect. The present study provides evidence that coparenting influences preschooler's behavior problems through marital conflict, and children who have high psychological resilience can buffer the impact of parental marital conflict on their behavior problems.

Key words: behavior problems, coparenting, marital conflict, psychological resilience, preschoolers

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  • B844
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