Why do parents employ helicopter parenting in the post-COVID-19 era? An actor-partner interdependence mediation model.

Autor: Wu W; Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China., Chao Y; Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China., Ji Z; Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China., Wang Y; Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.; National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China., Wang Y; Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of adolescence [J Adolesc] 2024 Jan; Vol. 96 (1), pp. 70-80. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 26.
DOI: 10.1002/jad.12253
Abstrakt: Introduction: In the post-COVID-19 era, small-scale and long-term recurrences of the pandemic can exacerbate future economic uncertainty. Previous studies have found that stressful situations are strongly associated with a controlling type of parenting. The relationship between parental perceptions of future economic uncertainty (PFEU) and helicopter parenting is currently unclear. This study aimed to examine the dyadic relationship between PFEU and helicopter parenting among Chinese parents in the postpandemic era and its underlying mechanisms from a family system perspective.
Methods: Questionnaire data were collected from 395 pairs of parents (M father  = 43.65 ± 5.30, M mother  = 40.71 ± 5.16, M adolescent  = 13.17 ± 0.87, 45.3% male) in Jiangxi Province, China in October 2021. An actor-partner interdependence mediation model was established.
Results: The results indicated that fathers' and mothers' PFEU were positively associated with their own helicopter parenting. Additionally, paternal parenting stress mediated the relationship between fathers' and mothers' PFEU and paternal helicopter parenting, whereas mothers' parenting stress mediated the association between mothers' PFEU and paternal and maternal helicopter parenting.
Conclusions: The current research provides important insights for improving Chinese family education practices in the postpandemic era.
(© 2023 Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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