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Relationship Between Grandparent–Parent Co-parenting, Infant Temperament, and Emotional Adjustment

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Grandparent–parent co-parenting has become a common model for infant rearing in China. However, the impact of grandparent–parent co-parenting on infants’ emotional adjustment still reminds to be found. The current study tested the social emotions and emotional regulation strategies of 145 2–3 year-old infants and the grandparent–parent co-parenting of them was reported by their parents, based on which the association of grandparent–parent co-parenting and infants’ emotional adjustment was examined and the regulating effect of infant temperament on the association was verified. The result shows grandparent–parent co-parenting impairment is negatively correlated with infants’ social emotions, and positively correlated with infants’ emotional regulation strategies. Effortful control of infants can regulate the influence of grandparent–parent co-parenting on infants’ social emotions. For infants with low effortful control level, grandparent–parent co-parenting can significantly positively predict the infants’ social emotions. For infants with high effortful control level, grandparent–parent co-parenting has no significant effect on their social emotions. Infant temperament has no significant regulating effect on the relationship between grandparent–parent co-parenting and infants’ emotional regulation strategies.

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Liu, X., Hong, X., Feng, W., Li, X., Wang, X., Pan, Y. (2019). Relationship Between Grandparent–Parent Co-parenting, Infant Temperament, and Emotional Adjustment. In: Research on the Development and Education of 0-3-Year-Old Children in China. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59755-2_7

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