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Ruhan Ding1, Peipei Hong1, Jinying Lu2
1Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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This study examines whether the effect of solicitous parenting on Chinese preschoolers' perspective-taking varies depending on child temperamental inhibition. Longitudinal data were collected from 163 Chinese children (70 girls, 93 boys; Mage = 2.59 years at the first visit) and their parents. Child inhibition was assessed at Age 2, solicitous parenting at Age 3, and children's perspective-taking skills at Age 3 (as baseline) and Age 5. Regression analysis supported the moderating effect of temperamental inhibition: solicitous parenting predicted better perspective-taking among children with relatively lower levels of inhibition, but poorer perspective-taking among children with extremely high inhibition. This contrastive effect pattern reflects the coexistence of goodness-of-fit and poorness-of-fit that best characterized the goodness-of-fit model. The findings suggest that solicitous parenting cannot be simply regarded as a positive or negative parenting style; its effect on social adaptation varies based on child's characteristics and cultural context.
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