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This study examined the mediating effects of parents' self-compassion and self-coldness on the problematic behavior of school-age children through marital satisfaction, warm and accepting parenting behavior. Data were collected from 336 married men and women with elementary school children in grades 4 to 6. The results of the study are as follows. First, the mediating effects of both parents’ self-compassion and self-coldness on children’s problematic behavior through marital satisfaction were not significant. Second, only parents' self-compassion had a significant partial mediating effect on their children's problematic behavior through warm and accepting parenting behaviors. Third, in the relationship between parents' self-compassion, self-coldness and children’s problematic behavior, the sequential mediating effect of marital satisfaction and warm and accepting parenting behaviors was significant. This study is meaningful because it examined the overall influence of parents’ personal characteristics on the family by distinguishing between self-coldness and self-compassion. The study’s results can serve as a theoretical basis for parental education programs incorporating self-compassion.

school-aged This study examined the relationship between parents’ adult attachment (anxiety and avoidance) and growth after adversity, in parents of school-aged children with developmental disabilities via parenting efficacy and disability acceptance. Self-report data of 152 parents of 6-12 years old children with developmental disabilities were analyzed using the SPSS 28.0 and process macro. The results indicated the significant dual mediating effects of parenting efficacy and disability acceptance. First, the relationship between parent’s adult attachment, growth after adversity, parental efficacy, and disability acceptance of children with school-aged developmental disabilities, a negative correlation was found between parental attachment and growth after adversity. Additionally, a negative correlation was found between parental attachment and parental efficacy. However, among parents’ adult attachments, unlike anxiety attachment, avoidant attachment had a negative correlation with parental efficacy. Contrarily, parental efficacy was found to be corelated with growth after adversity and disability acceptance. Second, among the attachments of parents of school-aged children with developmental disabilities, the dual mediating effects of parental efficacy and disability acceptance were confirmed in the relationship between avoidant attachment and growth after adversity. These findings provide a theoretical foundation to support the growth after adversity of parents of school-aged children with developmental disabilities.with developmental disabilities, Adult attachment, growth after adversity, parental efficacy, disability acceptance

Adults raised in East Asian cultures exhibit holistic attentional biases, focusing more on contextual information such as the background, compared to adults from North American cultures, who prioritize the foreground. Caregivers were observed to transmit these biases to the children. This study explored the cultural tendencies and attentional biases of caregivers in the rapidly changing Korean cultural context, and whether these tendencies and biases influenced the relational reasoning performance of their children aged 18 to 36 months. Analyses of 83 mothers showed that Korean mothers valued both individualism and horizontal collectivism but they emphasized the foreground over the background in scene descriptions, reflecting analytic attentional biases. However, no apparent influence of maternal cultural tendencies was observed in their child’s relational reasoning performance, suggesting that cultural influences may not yet play a direct role in development at this early stage.