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<p>Parental distress impacts children’s emotional adjustment, highlighting the need to identify protective factors. Promising candidates include positive control (i.e., autonomy support, indexed by parental encouragement, praise, and open-ended questions) and representational mind-mindedness (the propensity for parents to view children as independent agents). To counterbalance the focus on European and North American samples, we included 849 parent-child dyads from England, Hong Kong and Mainland China (<i>M</i><sub>child age</sub> = 5.17 years, <i>SD</i> = 0.51). Parents rated their own distress and child internalizing problems; their interactions with their children were assessed for positive control, and their speech samples were coded for representational mind-mindedness. In a single-paper meta-analysis, parental distress was associated with elevated child internalizing problems and low positive control consistently across sites, but only associated with low mind-mindedness in England. Within-site analyses showed that intergenerational associations in distress-internalizing problems were attenuated by positive control in Mainland China and by mind-mindedness in England; multi-group modeling demonstrated that this latter effect was site-specific. These findings highlight the importance of widening the cultural scope of this research field.</p>

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Cross-cultural evidence for positive control and mind-mindedness as buffers for parental distress

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    2026年6月17日

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  • Claire Hughes,
  • Elian Fink,
  • Ayalguu Agtchin,
  • Laure Lu Chen,
  • Caoimhe Dempsey,
  • Rory T. Devine,
  • Hana D’Souza,
  • Miryam Edwards,
  • Louise Gray,
  • Jean Anne Heng,
  • Mikeda Jess,
  • Mishika Mehrotra,
  • Siu Ching Wong,
  • Catherine Wu,
  • Jiayin Zheng,
  • Zhen Wu,
  • Zhenlin Wang,
  • Chengyi Xu

摘要

Parental distress impacts children’s emotional adjustment, highlighting the need to identify protective factors. Promising candidates include positive control (i.e., autonomy support, indexed by parental encouragement, praise, and open-ended questions) and representational mind-mindedness (the propensity for parents to view children as independent agents). To counterbalance the focus on European and North American samples, we included 849 parent-child dyads from England, Hong Kong and Mainland China (Mchild age = 5.17 years, SD = 0.51). Parents rated their own distress and child internalizing problems; their interactions with their children were assessed for positive control, and their speech samples were coded for representational mind-mindedness. In a single-paper meta-analysis, parental distress was associated with elevated child internalizing problems and low positive control consistently across sites, but only associated with low mind-mindedness in England. Within-site analyses showed that intergenerational associations in distress-internalizing problems were attenuated by positive control in Mainland China and by mind-mindedness in England; multi-group modeling demonstrated that this latter effect was site-specific. These findings highlight the importance of widening the cultural scope of this research field.