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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Developmental Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1425777

How parenting styles affect primary school students' subjective wellbeing? The mediating role of self-concept and emotional intelligence

Provisionally accepted
Tiantian Gao Tiantian Gao Baoqian Li Baoqian Li Shuxian Liang Shuxian Liang Wanmeng Zhou Wanmeng Zhou Xinyi Zhu Xinyi Zhu Lu Bai Lu Bai Guoqiang Li Guoqiang Li *
  • Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

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    Purpose: To explore the relationship between parenting styles and self-concept, emotional intelligence, and subjective well-being among primary school students. Methods: In total, 1,683 students from 10 primary schools in Hangzhou, China, were surveyed using a simple random sampling method. Participants completed the Parenting Style Scale, the Self-Concept Scale, the Emotional Intelligence Scale, and the Subjective Well-Being Scale. Results: (1) Father's and mother's emotional warmth was significantly positively correlated with students' subjective wellbeing (r=0.513, P<0.01 and r=0.478, P<0.01, respectively). Father's and mother's rejection was significantly negatively correlated with students' subjective well-being (r=-0.257, P<0.01 and r=-0.285, P<0.01, respectively). Father's overprotection was significantly negatively correlated with students' subjective well-being (r=-0.178, P<0.01; r=-0.227, P<0.01). (2) Self-concept and emotional intelligence acted as chain mediators between father's and mother's emotional warmth and students' subjective well-being (0.337, 0.477 and 0.366, 0.520, respectively). Self-concept and emotional intelligence acted as chain mediators between father's and mother's rejection and students' subjective well-being (-0.590, -0.377 and -0.693, -0.460, respectively). Self-concept chainmediated between father's and mother's overprotection and students' subjective well-being (-0.380, -0.224 and -0.413, -0.264 respectively). Conclusion: Parenting styles can affect primary school student's subjective well-being both directly and through mediating effects. Self-concept and emotional intelligence partially mediate the impact of emotional warmth and rejection parenting styles, and fully mediate the impact of father's overprotective parenting on subjective well-being.

    Keywords: Primary school students, parenting styles, Subjective well-being, self-concept, Emotional Intelligence, Mediating role

    Received: 30 Apr 2024; Accepted: 30 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Gao, Li, Liang, Zhou, Zhu, Bai and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Guoqiang Li, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

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