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Self-regulation can transmit across generations, and parenting behaviour is considered a potential social mechanism of transmission (Bridgett, Burt, Edwards, & Deater-Deckard, 2015). Parents with good self-regulation are likely to use positive parenting that can foster self-regulation development in their children. In this study, we will focus on parental protection. Parental protection can provide children with a safe environment to practice and internalize self-regulation skills. However, when it is provided too much or too little, it can harm the self-regulation ability of children. High parental protection (overprotection) can undermine children’s self-regulation development by limiting their opportunities to practice self-regulation skills. Low parental protection may indicate a lack of parental care to provide a safe environment to develop self-regulation skills. Therefore, both high and low parental protection may harm offspring self-regulation development. Parents’ self-regulation likely affects parental protection, and the possible associations might be two-folded. On the one hand, parents with low self-regulation may exert low parental protection because they may have difficulty responding appropriately to the goals of their children and family and regulating their behaviours accordingly (Sanders, Turner, & Metzler, 2019). On the other hand, parents with low self-regulation could use overprotective behaviour to compensate for the anxiety caused by the lack of self-regulation skills (Segrin, Woszidlo, Givertz, & Montgomery, 2013). Therefore, low parental self-regulation could be associated with poor as well as excessive parental protection, and both might mediate the intergenerational transmission of low self-regulation. |
