Parents’ Social Emotional Competence and Children’s Social Emotional Competence: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Communication and the Moderating Role of Family Atmosphere

doi:10.12139/j.1672-0628.2026.02.012

Abstract

Abstract: To explore the relationship between parents’ social emotional competence and children’s social emotional competence and its mechanism, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 523 students in grades three to six and their parents in a primary school. The results showed that parents’ social emotional competence positively predicted children’s social emotional competence; open parent-child communication played a full mediating role between the two; family atmosphere positively moderated the direct effect of parents’ social emotional competence on children’s social emotional competence, and negatively moderated the first half of the mediating path of “parents’ social emotional competence → open parent-child communication → children’s social emotional competence”. This study reveals that the formation and development of children’s social emotional competence to a certain extent are the result of the joint shaping and interaction of family environment and parents’ social emotional competence.

Key words: parents, children, social emotional competence, parent-child communication, family atmosphere

摘要： 为探讨父母社会情感能力与儿童社会情感能力的关系及其机制，对523名三至六年级学生及其父母进行问卷调查。结果显示：父母社会情感能力正向预测儿童社会情感能力；开放性亲子沟通在二者间起完全中介作用；家庭氛围正向调节父母社会情感能力对儿童社会情感能力的直接效应，并负向调节“父母社会情感能力-开放性亲子沟通-儿童社会情感能力”的中介路径前半段。本研究揭示了儿童社会情感能力的形成和发展一定程度上是家庭环境和父母社会情感能力共同塑造和相互作用的结果。

关键词: 父母, 儿童, 社会情感能力, 亲子沟通, 家庭氛围

CLC Number:

B844

ZHAO Cong, ZHANG Zhen, ZHAO Yilin, JIN Dongyan. Parents’ Social Emotional Competence and Children’s Social Emotional Competence: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Communication and the Moderating Role of Family Atmosphere[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2026, 24(2): 234-241.

赵聪, 张镇, 赵怡霖, 金东艳. 父母社会情感能力与儿童社会情感能力：亲子沟通的中介作用和家庭氛围的调节作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2026, 24(2): 234-241.

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