Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 21-30.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.01.03

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The Relationship between Co-parenting by Grandparents and Parents and False Belief Understanding of Preschool Children: The Role of Parent-child Attachment and Co-residence with Grandparents

CHEN Chuanfeng1, GE Guohong2, LU Danfeng3, YUE Huilan1   

  1. 1. School of Teacher Education, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000;
    2. Department of Public Administration, Ningbo Administration Institution, Ningbo 315000;
    3. Xiangshan Kindergarten, Xihu District, Hangzhou 310008
  • Published:2023-01-10

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Abstract: To examine the relationship between parenting style and false belief understanding of children co-parenting by grandparents and parents, and explore the mediating effect of Parent-child attachment, the method of convenient sampling were used to investigate 345 preschool children and their main custodian in three kindergartens in a city. Children were asked to conduct experimental measurements of false belief understanding, and their main custodian were asked to answer the questionnaires of parenting style and parent-child attachment. The results indicated that:(1) Styles of Co-parenting by parents and by grandparents have significant effects on Children's false belief understanding and parent-child attachment:the level of false belief understanding and parent-child attachment of children co-residing with grandparents in the family are lower than that of children without grandparents co-residence in the family; (2)The parent-child attachment play a mediating role between children's false belief understanding and parenting styles of family co-parenting by grandparents and by parents; (3)The parenting styles of family co-parenting have a moderating effects in the relationship among parenting conflict, parent-child attachment and the false belief understanding of children, the parenting conflict in the family of co-residence negatively predict children's parent-child attachment.

Key words: co-parenting by grandparents and parents, parenting style, parent-child attachment, false belief understanding

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