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The Effect of Parental Mindfulness on Children’s Peer Competence: The Sequential Mediating Roles of Marital Communication and Children’s Emotion Regulation

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2025, 38(4), pp.71~91
  • DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2025.12.38.4.71
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
  • Received : September 25, 2025
  • Accepted : December 2, 2025
  • Published : December 15, 2025

Sojin We 1 Shin, Kyoung Min ORD ID 2

1광운대학교
2한양사이버대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the effect of parental mindfulness on children’s peer competence through the mediating roles of marital communication and children’s emotion regulation. Participants were 208 parents who were maintaining their marital relationship while raising elementary school-aged children. The findings were as follows. First, children’s emotion regulation mediated the relationship between parental mindfulness and children’s peer competence. Second, marital communication influenced children’s peer competence through the mediating role of children’s emotion regulation. Third, in the pathway from parental mindfulness to children’s peer competence, marital communication and children’s emotion regulation demonstrated sequential mediating effects. Based on these findings, implications for practice, limitations of the study, and directions for future research are discussed.

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