The Relationship Between Maternal Emotional Warmth and Young Children's Social-Emotional Competence:the Mediating Role of Media Addiction and the Moderating Effect of Parent-Child Interaction Quality
In orderto explore the impact of maternal emotional warmth on children's social-emotional abilities and its underlying mechanisms,the studyconstructed a moderated mediation model,focusing on the mediating role of children's media addiction and the moderating effect of parent-child interaction qualitybased on ecological systems theory and new ecological theory.A survey was conducted with 353 mothers using the Screen Exposure Scale,Family Environment Scale,Social Emotional Ability Scale,and Parent-Child Interaction Quality Scale.The results revealed that:1)maternal emotional warmth was significantly positively correlated with children's social-emotional competence and significantly negatively correlated with young children's media addiction;the quality of parent-child interaction was significantly negatively correlated with young children's media addiction;2)not only did maternal emotional warmth directly and positively predicted social-emotional competence but also indirectly influenced them through the mediation of young children's media addiction;3)the first half of the mediating effect"maternal emotional warmth → children's media addiction → social-emotional competence"was moderated by the quality of parent-child interaction,and the impact of maternal emotional warmth on young children's media addiction was stronger among individuals with higher parent-child interaction quality.The research findings indicated that maternal emotional warmth promoted the development of social-emotionalcompetence by reducing children's media addiction,and the quality of parent-child interaction enhanced the weakening effect of maternal emotional warmth on children's media addiction,thereby influencing social-emotional competence.
maternal emotional warmthsocial-emotional competenceearly childhood media addictionparent-child interaction quality