The Relationship Between Parental Psychological Flexibility and Infant Social Withdrawal: The Mediating Role of Parenting Styles
Abstract
parental psychological flexibility and infant/toddler social withdrawal. Using the Parental Psychological Flexibility Scale, Parenting Style
Scale, and Infant/Toddler Social Withdrawal Scale, two rounds of multi-time point surveys were conducted among 273 parents and teachers of
infants and toddlers. The results showed that: Parental psychological flexibility was negatively correlated with authoritarian parenting, positively correlated with authoritative parenting; authoritarian parenting was positively correlated with infant/toddler social withdrawal, while
authoritative parenting was negatively correlated with infant/toddler social withdrawal. Parental psychological flexibility was significantly
negatively correlated with infant/toddler social withdrawal. Both authoritarian parenting and authoritative parenting played a complete mediating role between parental psychological flexibility and infant/toddler social withdrawal. The findings revealed that parental psychological
flexibility can not only directly affect infant/toddler social withdrawal but also indirectly influence it through parenting styles (authoritative
and authoritarian).
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/wef.v3i4.8171
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