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Background <p>Autistic children are likely to have reduced prosocial behavior. Parental emotional management has been reported to exert a significant impact on offspring behavior and relationships during their lifespan. This study aimed to examine the network characteristics of parental awareness of children’s emotions and emotion coaching, and their associations with the prosocial behavior of Chinese autistic children.</p> Methods <p>Three hundred parents of autistic children completed measures assessing emotion awareness, emotion coaching, and their children’s prosocial behavior. Central and bridge nodes were assessed using Expected influence (EI) and bridge EI, respectively. A flow network of pro-social behavior in autistic children was used to identify specific links to parental emotion awareness and emotion coaching.</p> Results <p>Network analyses identified that EC3 (“Solve the child’s sadness problems”), EC7 (“Get close when the child is sad”), and EC2 (“Experience anger with the child”) are central nodes in the network of parental awareness of children’s emotions and emotion coaching. EAC1 (“Aware of the child’s unspoken feelings”), EC7 (“Get close when the child is sad”), and EAC2 (“Easy to know the child’s feelings”) are critical bridge nodes linking emotion awareness and emotion coaching. Additionally, prosocial behavior in autistic children demonstrated the strongest positive correlation with EAC3 (“Easy to know the child’s worries”) and the strongest negative correlation with EC5 (“Anger is worth exploring”).</p> Conclusion <p>These findings provide insights into visualizing the emotion awareness and coaching of Chinese parents of autistic children, highlighting the strong connection between parental emotional management skills and the development of children’s prosocial behavior.</p>

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Network Analysis of Parental Emotion Awareness and Emotion Coaching: Associations with Prosocial Behavior in Chinese Autistic Children

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    2025年9月30日

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  • Minghui Lu,
  • Qinqin Zou,
  • Feifan Pang,
  • Kexin Shi,
  • Xiaoxiao Lin

摘要

Background

Autistic children are likely to have reduced prosocial behavior. Parental emotional management has been reported to exert a significant impact on offspring behavior and relationships during their lifespan. This study aimed to examine the network characteristics of parental awareness of children’s emotions and emotion coaching, and their associations with the prosocial behavior of Chinese autistic children.

Methods

Three hundred parents of autistic children completed measures assessing emotion awareness, emotion coaching, and their children’s prosocial behavior. Central and bridge nodes were assessed using Expected influence (EI) and bridge EI, respectively. A flow network of pro-social behavior in autistic children was used to identify specific links to parental emotion awareness and emotion coaching.

Results

Network analyses identified that EC3 (“Solve the child’s sadness problems”), EC7 (“Get close when the child is sad”), and EC2 (“Experience anger with the child”) are central nodes in the network of parental awareness of children’s emotions and emotion coaching. EAC1 (“Aware of the child’s unspoken feelings”), EC7 (“Get close when the child is sad”), and EAC2 (“Easy to know the child’s feelings”) are critical bridge nodes linking emotion awareness and emotion coaching. Additionally, prosocial behavior in autistic children demonstrated the strongest positive correlation with EAC3 (“Easy to know the child’s worries”) and the strongest negative correlation with EC5 (“Anger is worth exploring”).

Conclusion

These findings provide insights into visualizing the emotion awareness and coaching of Chinese parents of autistic children, highlighting the strong connection between parental emotional management skills and the development of children’s prosocial behavior.