Parental Playfulness as a Mediator of the Association between Parents' Emotional Difficulties and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Shorer, M.; Zilker, N.; Salomon, A.; Spiegelman, N.
Titel	Parental Playfulness as a Mediator of the Association between Parents' Emotional Difficulties and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 193 (2023) 9-10, S.1173-1187 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shorer, M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2023.2243395
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Mental Health; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Child Behavior; Behavior Problems; Prosocial Behavior; Play; Parent Child Relationship; Young Children; Emotional Problems; Predictor Variables; Parent Influence; Screening Tests; Foreign Countries; Israel; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Psychohygiene; Angst; Spiel; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Prädiktor; Screening-Verfahren; Ausland
Abstract	This study examined parental playfulness as a mediator of the association between mothers' emotional difficulties (anxiety, depression) and their children's psychosocial adjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviours). We also examined the associations between parental playfulness and mothers' supportive / unsupportive reactions to their child's negative emotions. Participants were 197 mothers of children aged 3-8 years, who completed online questionnaires. Mothers' higher levels of emotional difficulties were associated with lower levels of parental playfulness, and these were associated with children's higher levels of externalizing and internalizing symptoms, and lower levels of prosocial behaviours. Parental playfulness mediated the relationship between mothers' emotional difficulties and children's externalizing symptoms. It was also positively related with mothers' supportive reactions to children's negative emotions and negatively related with unsupportive reactions. These findings underscore the importance of parental playfulness to children's emotional adjustment, particularly to externalizing symptoms, and may provide a basis for new parenting interventions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01