Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (3): 323-330.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.03.03

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The Effects of Marital Quality on Children’s Pro-social Behavior: The Chain Mediating Model of Parental Positive Emotion Expression, Parenting Behavior and the Gender Difference

WANG Siqi1,3, ZHAO Binxuan1, WU Hong2, LIU Wei1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology of Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025;
    2. School of Teacher Education of Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025;
    3. Qiannan Preschool Education College for Nationalities, Guiding 551300
  • Published:2022-05-17

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Abstract: To explore the chain mediation mechanism among marital quality, parental emotion expression, parenting behavior and children’s pro-social behavior. Dyadic adjustment scale, self-expression in the family questionnaire, parental parenting behavior and strengths and difficulties questionnaire inventory were employed into this study to investigate parents of 442 pupils from grade 1 to grade 6 in two schools in Guizhou Province. The results show that: (1) marital quality is positively correlated with children's pro-social behavior; (2) positive emotional expression and parental acceptance companionship play a chain mediating effect between marital quality and children’s pro-social behavior,which contain three significant mediating pathways: the separate mediating effect of positive emotional expression parental acceptance companionship, and the chain mediating; (3) There is also significant gender difference in the chain mediating effect. Therefore, the results provided a reference of empirical research for the increasing of children's pro-social behavior by improving marital quality, enhancing positive emotion expression and adopting positive parenting behavior.

Key words: marital quality, pro-social behavior, positive emotion expression, parenting behavior, children

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