The Relationship between Parental Subjective Well-being and Parenting Concept: The Mediating Role of Rumination

Abstract

This study examined the influence of parents' subjective well-being on their parenting concepts, and the mediating role of rumination. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 784 parents of primary school students using the Subjective Well-Being Scale, Parenting Concept Scale and Rumination Scale. The results are as follows: (1) Parents' subjective well-being significantly negatively predicted unreasonable parenting concepts; (2) Parents' subjective well-being significantly negatively predicted rumination; (3) Symptom rumination and brooding were significantly positively predicted, and reflective pondering significantly negatively predicted unreasonable parenting concepts; (4) Rumination played a completely mediating role in the relationship between parents' subjective well-being and parenting concepts. Under the theory of cognitive motivation process and response style, this study verified that the lower the subjective well-being of parents, the more serious their unreasonable upbringing concepts, and rumination plays a mediating role in the relationship between the two.