Harsh Parenting and Children’s Aggressive Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model

Bowen Liu, Yuhua Yang, Jie Geng, Tingting Cai, Mengjuan Zhu, Tao Chen and Jinjing Xiang
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Bowen Liu: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Yuhua Yang: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Jie Geng: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Tingting Cai: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Mengjuan Zhu: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Tao Chen: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Jinjing Xiang: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Harsh parenting and its effect on children’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’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–Warren Aggression Questionnaire, and the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale. Results indicated that: (1) Harsh parenting had a significant positive predictive effect on children’s aggressive behavior after controlling gender; (2) normative beliefs about the aggression of children mediated the relationship between harsh parenting and children’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’s aggressive behavior. The results are not only helpful to understand the relationship between harsh parenting and children’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’s aggressive behavior in the future.

Keywords: harsh parenting; aggressive behavior; normative beliefs about aggression; regulatory emotional self-efficacy; integrated model of emotion processes and cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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