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. 2024 Jan 9:14:1279175.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1279175. eCollection 2023.

Chinese parents' school-readiness beliefs and parenting styles: patterns and associated factors

Shujing Cui  1 , David Greger  1
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Chinese parents' school-readiness beliefs and parenting styles: patterns and associated factors

Shujing Cui et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Introduction: A smooth transition to primary school is positively related to children's later school experience. Certain parental school-readiness beliefs and parenting styles, among other factors, contribute to the smoothness of this transition.

Methods: Therefore, this study adopted a latent profile analysis to examine the patterns of Chinese parents' school-readiness beliefs and their parenting styles and investigated socioeconomic status (SES) differentials in both. Two-stage probability sampling method is adopted in this study and a total of 1,204 Chinese parents of 5- to 6 years-old children were investigated with school-readiness beliefs scale, Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire, as well as scale of attitudes regarding roles in school readiness All data analyses were processed in Mplus 8.6.

Results and discussion: Three profiles were identified: (1) supportive parenting with a very strong emphasis on school readiness; (2) partially supportive parenting with a reflection of school readiness; (3) weakly supportive parenting with no emphasis on school readiness. Higher SES was found to be more likely to be associated with membership in Profile 1 rather than Profile 2. The present study shows quantitative support for Anette Lareau's work and has implications for the development of more targeted parental intervention programs.

Keywords: COVID-19 study; latent profile analysis; parenting style; parents’ school-readiness beliefs; school readiness; socioeconomic status (SES).

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Latent profiles of parents’ school-readiness beliefs and parenting style.
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