Family socioeconomic status and problem behaviors among Chinese migrant preschool children: The serial mediating roles of mindful parenting and resilience
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Abstract
The scale of migrant preschool children in China continues to expand. “Migration” as an important life event in the development of preschool children will have a profound and lasting impact on their development. To explore the influence of family socioeconomic status on the problem behaviors of migrant preschool children and their underlying mechanisms, we conducted a survey on 939 migrant preschool children and their parents. The findings reveal a significant negative correlation between family socioeconomic status and the problem behaviors exhibited by migrant preschool children; family socioeconomic status can influence problem behaviors in migrant preschool children through the independent mediating effects of mindful parenting and resilience, as well as the serial mediating effects of mindful parenting and resilience. This study expands the relevant research in the field of migrant preschool children and provides some theoretical references for the prevention and intervention of problem behaviors in migrant preschool children.
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The Infant Mental Health Journal (IMHJ) is the official publication of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) and the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) and is copyrighted by MI-AIMH. The Infant Mental Health Journal publishes peer-reviewed research articles, literature reviews, program descriptions/evaluations, theoretical/conceptual papers and brief reports (clinical case studies and novel pilot studies) that focus on early social and emotional development and characteristics that influence social-emotional development from relationship-based perspectives. Examples of such influences include attachment relationships, early relationship development, caregiver-infant interactions, infant and early childhood mental health services, contextual and cultural influences on infant/toddler/child and family development, including parental/caregiver psychosocial characteristics and attachment history, prenatal experiences, and biological characteristics in interaction with relational environments that promote optimal social-emotional development or place it at higher risk. Research published in IMHJ focuses on the prenatal-age 5 period and employs relationship-based perspectives in key research questions and interpretation and implications of findings.