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Effects of Parents' Self-Compassion and Self-Coldness on Children's Problematic Behavior: The Sequential Mediation of Marital Satisfaction and Warm and Accepting Parenting Behavior

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2025, 38(1), pp.1~23
  • DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2025.38.1.52777.52777
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
  • Received : January 15, 2025
  • Accepted : March 6, 2025
  • Published : March 15, 2025

Seon-Pyo Hong 1 Sae-Young Han 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

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.

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