The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress in the Relations Between Parental Emotion Regulation and Parenting Behaviors in Chinese Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Dyadic Analysis
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Little is known regarding the dynamic interactions between fathers and mothers in families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during the parenting process. This study used an actor-partner interdependence mediation (APIMeM) model to investigate the intrapersonal and interpersonal effects of emotion dysregulation and parenting stress on parenting behaviors among 211 pairs (total N = 422) of Chinese parents of children with ASD. The results indicated that for both fathers and mothers, there were significant indirect actor effects of parental emotion dysregulation on parents' own parenting behaviors through their own parenting stress. However, no significant direct or indirect partner effect was found in the analyses. These findings suggest that the emotional parenting dynamics occurred on the individual rather than the dyadic level in these families.
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Disturbances in emotion regulation of parents correlate significantly with parental stress in parents of children with ASD.
“This is especially relevant for parents of children with NDDs, since disturbances in emotion regulation of parents were found to correlate significantly with parental stress in parents of children with ASD [43].”
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Background
- Authors
- Hu, X., Han, Z. R., Bai, L., & Gao, M. M.
- Affiliations
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Corresponding author
- Han, Zhuo Rachel
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2019-06-13
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 3983-3998
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- PMC
- PMC6751273
- OpenAlex
- W2950877168
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 6
- FWCI
- 10.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- The National Social Science Fund of China (13CSH106)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500898)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, parental emotion regulation, parental stress, parental behavior, emotional dysregulation, parent-child dyads, actor-partner interdependence mediation, Chinese family
- MeSH terms
- Autism Spectrum Disorder, Emotional Regulation, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, China, Female, Humans, Male, Parents, Stress, Psychological, Parenting
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