Relationship between parental rearing style and emotional and behavioral problems of 3-6-year-old children / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand emotional and behavioral problems of children aged 3-6 years, and to explore the role of parenting style in the development of those problems.@*Methods@#A total of 2 278 children from 11 public kindergartens in Tongling City from April to June 2018 were selected by cluster sampling method. The questionnaire was made up by parents. The questionnaire mainly included children, basic information of parents and children, children’s psychology and behavior, and parents’ education style, etc.@*Results@#Among 2 278 children, 192(8.43%) had abnormal emotional symptoms, 214 (9.39%) had conduct problems, 376(16.50%) had hyperactivity problems, 537(23.57%) had peer problems, 233(10.2%) had abnormal total difficulty scores and 254(11.15%) had prosocial behaviors. Gender, age, health status of the child, second-hand smoke exposure of the baby, parents’ education level, family economic conditions, and parents’ education mode are all the influencing factors of children’s emotion and behavior(P<0.05). Logistic analysis showed that father’s support participation(OR=0.96, 95%CI=0.95-0.98), mother’s support participation (OR=0.94, 95%CI=0.92-0.95), mother’s hostility compulsion (OR=1.08, 95%CI=1.06-1.10) and 3-6-year-old children’s abnormal mood and behavior were correlated(P<0.01).@*Conclusion@#Parental support and maternal hostile are related to emotional and behavioral problems of 3-6-year-old children.