Maternal phubbing and authoritative parenting: Latent profiles and associations with child behavioral outcomes

IF 1.8 3区社会学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Family Relations Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI:10.1111/fare.70004

Jingyao Wang, Wanjuan Weng, Yuke Fu, Mowei Liu, Bowen Xiao, Jie Li, Yan Li

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Abstract

Objective

This study aimed to identify different profiles of mothers based on phubbing and parenting and examined the effects of the different profiles on children's outcomes.

Background

Previous studies examined this mechanism via a variable-centered approach, assuming its relationship is linear, without exploring the underlying typology of parents with various phubbing and parenting.

Method

From Shanghai kindergartens, 970 mothers of children aged 3–6 years were recruited. Participants completed the measures (administered via an online survey website) of parental phubbing, parenting style, and children's outcomes. The study identified subgroups by maternal authoritativeness and phubbing using latent profile analysis.

Results

Three profiles emerged: low-level (11.13%), medium-level (39.38%), and high-level (49.48%) child-centered parenting. Low-level mothers who displayed the most phubbing and least authoritativeness reported their children faced more behavioral difficulties.

Conclusion

The findings imply remarkable between-group differences in parental phubbing and authoritative parenting. High-level child-centered parenting contributes to reducing children's behavioral difficulties and increasing their strengths.

Implications

This study emphasizes the blending influence of parental media use and child-rearing behaviors on children's outcomes in Chinese families.

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目的本研究旨在识别基于低头癖和育儿方式的母亲的不同特征，并探讨不同特征对儿童结局的影响。以前的研究通过以变量为中心的方法来研究这一机制，假设其关系是线性的，而没有探索具有不同低头行为和养育方式的父母的潜在类型。方法从上海幼儿园招募3 ~ 6岁幼儿母亲970名。参与者完成了父母低头、父母教养方式和孩子的结果的测量（通过在线调查网站管理）。本研究通过母亲的权威性和潜在性分析来确定亚群。结果出现了低水平（11.13%）、中水平（39.38%）和高水平（49.48%）以孩子为中心的教养方式。表现出最低头和最不权威的低级别母亲报告说，她们的孩子面临更多的行为困难。结论父母低头行为和权威型育儿行为在组间存在显著差异。高水平的以儿童为中心的养育有助于减少儿童的行为困难和增加他们的长处。本研究强调父母媒体使用和子女养育行为对中国家庭子女发展的混合影响。

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Family Relations Multiple-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

13.60%

发文量

164

期刊介绍： A premier, applied journal of family studies, Family Relations is mandatory reading for family scholars and all professionals who work with families, including: family practitioners, educators, marriage and family therapists, researchers, and social policy specialists. The journal"s content emphasizes family research with implications for intervention, education, and public policy, always publishing original, innovative and interdisciplinary works with specific recommendations for practice.