A Pilot Study to Examine the Effects of an Emotion Coaching Parenting Program for Chinese Parents of Preschoolers.

IF 3 2区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Prevention Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-28 DOI:10.1007/s11121-025-01780-4

Suping Liu, Lixin Ren

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Abstract

Parental emotion socialization is crucial to children's development, yet emotion-focused parenting programs are scarce in non-Western contexts. In this study, we developed a four-week emotion-focused parenting program based on the principles of emotion coaching for Chinese families with preschool-aged children. This program integrated parent group sessions with home-based parent-child shared reading. A total of 73 parents of preschoolers were recruited and randomly assigned to experimental and waitlist control groups. Three waves of data on parents' emotion-related parenting beliefs and practices and parenting stress were collected at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and three-month follow-up. Significant reductions in parents' punitive reactions, minimization reactions, and parent-child dysfunctional interactions were found in both the experimental and the waitlist control groups immediately after completion of the program. When combining data from both groups, a significant improvement in parents' expressive encouragement was observed at post-intervention and follow-up. Additionally, delayed effects of the program were found on parents' emotion-dismissing beliefs, problem-focused reactions, and overall parenting stress. This study was one of the first in China to develop an emotion-focused parenting program and rigorously examine its feasibility and effects, offering insights into the development of similar parenting programs in China.

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情绪辅导对中国学龄前儿童父母影响的初步研究。

父母的情感社会化对儿童的发展至关重要，但在非西方环境中，以情感为中心的育儿计划很少。在这项研究中，我们基于情感指导的原则，为中国学龄前儿童家庭开发了一个为期四周的以情感为中心的育儿计划。该计划将家长小组会议与家庭亲子共享阅读结合起来。总共招募了73名学龄前儿童的父母，并随机分配到实验组和候补对照组。在干预前、干预后和三个月的随访中收集了三波父母情绪相关的育儿信念和做法以及育儿压力的数据。在项目完成后，实验组和等候名单控制组都发现父母的惩罚性反应、最小化反应和亲子功能失调互动的显著减少。当结合两组的数据时，在干预后和随访中观察到父母表达性鼓励的显著改善。此外，该计划的延迟效应被发现在父母的情绪驳回信念，问题集中反应和整体育儿压力。这项研究是中国第一个开发以情感为中心的育儿计划，并严格检查其可行性和效果的研究之一，为中国类似育儿计划的发展提供了见解。

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Prevention Science PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

11.40%

发文量

128

期刊介绍： Prevention Science is the official publication of the Society for Prevention Research. The Journal serves as an interdisciplinary forum designed to disseminate new developments in the theory, research and practice of prevention. Prevention sciences encompassing etiology, epidemiology and intervention are represented through peer-reviewed original research articles on a variety of health and social problems, including but not limited to substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS, violence, accidents, teenage pregnancy, suicide, delinquency, STD''s, obesity, diet/nutrition, exercise, and chronic illness. The journal also publishes literature reviews, theoretical articles, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, brief reports, replication studies, and papers concerning new developments in methodology.