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Abstract
Background: Building upon previous research suggesting that parental psychological flexibility is negatively associate with children's behavioral problems, this study examined a moderated mediation model to explore the effect of parental psychological flexibility on children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Specifically, parent-child conflict is considered as a mediator while parental phubbing is examined as a moderator.
Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional design, with a total of 1060 parents of preschool-aged children participating. The parents completed a series of surveys, including the Parental Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire, the short form of the Child-Parent Relationship Scale, the Parental Phubbing Scale, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire regarding their children. The moderated mediation model was assessed using SPSS PROCESS 4.1.
Results: The results indicated that parental psychological flexibility negatively predicted children's behavioral problems through the mediating effect of parent-child conflict, with this relationship being moderated by parental phubbing; an increase in phubbing weakened the negative correlation between parental psychological flexibility and parent-child conflict, thereby further weakened the negative correlation between parental psychological flexibility and children's behavioral problems.
Conclusion: These findings offer potential strategies for parents to mitigate the risk of their children developing internalizing or externalizing problems, by enhancing parental psychological flexibility and reducing instances of phubbing behavior.
背景：在父母心理弹性与儿童行为问题负相关研究的基础上，本研究通过一个有调节的中介模型来探讨父母心理弹性对儿童内化和外化问题的影响。具体来说，亲子冲突被认为是一个中介，而父母低头被认为是一个调节因素。方法：本研究采用横断面设计，共1060名学龄前儿童家长参与。父母完成了一系列关于孩子的问卷调查，包括父母心理弹性问卷、亲子关系简易量表、父母低头量表和优势与困难问卷。采用SPSS PROCESS 4.1对有调节的中介模型进行评估。结果：父母心理灵活性通过亲子冲突的中介作用负向预测儿童的行为问题，父母低头行为调节了这一关系；低头行为的增加削弱了父母心理灵活性与亲子冲突的负相关关系，从而进一步削弱了父母心理灵活性与儿童行为问题的负相关关系。结论：这些发现为父母提供了潜在的策略，可以通过提高父母的心理灵活性和减少低头行为的实例来减轻孩子出现内化或外化问题的风险。
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, the official journal of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, is an open access, online journal that provides an international platform for rapid and comprehensive scientific communication on child and adolescent mental health across different cultural backgrounds. CAPMH serves as a scientifically rigorous and broadly open forum for both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange of research information, involving psychiatrists, paediatricians, psychologists, neuroscientists, and allied disciplines. The journal focusses on improving the knowledge base for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mental health conditions in children and adolescents, and aims to integrate basic science, clinical research and the practical implementation of research findings. In addition, aspects which are still underrepresented in the traditional journals such as neurobiology and neuropsychology of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence are considered.
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