Harsh Parenting and Children’s Aggressive Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
Bowen Liu; Yuhua Yang; Jie Geng; Tingting Cai; Mengjuan Zhu; Tao Chen; Jinjing Xiang
Harsh parenting and its effect on children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior has received attention from researchers, however few studies have considered the role of the emotional process. This study aims to examine the relationship between harsh parenting, children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior, normative beliefs about aggression, and regulatory emotional self-efficacy, alongside their mechanism of interplay. A sample of 235 senior primary school students in Beijing were recruited as participants by using the Harsh Parenting Scale, the Normative Beliefs about Aggression Scale, the Buss&ndash:Warren Aggression Questionnaire, and the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale. Results indicated that: (1) Harsh parenting had a significant positive predictive effect on children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior after controlling gender: (2) normative beliefs about the aggression of children mediated the relationship between harsh parenting and children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior: and (3) regulatory emotional self-efficacy had moderating effects both the mediation model of normative beliefs about the aggression of children and in the direct predictive model of harsh parenting on children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior. The results are not only helpful to understand the relationship between harsh parenting and children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior from the perspective of an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition, but also provide a new practical way to prevent and intervene in children&rsquo:s aggressive behavior in the future.
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