Research advances in the association between parental insightfulness and early childhood development

ZHANG Chang; ZHOU Ting

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-1479

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2022, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (10) : 1095-1098. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-1479

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Research advances in the association between parental insightfulness and early childhood development

ZHANG Chang, ZHOU Ting

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Parental insightfulness is defined as the capacity of caregivers to consider motives and emotions underlying their children's behaviors from the perspective of children. Based on attachment theory, parental insightfulness plays an important role in the establishment of secure attachment and early childhood development. Previous studies have indicated that parental insightfulness is associated with positive parenting behaviors and improved quality of parenting, which plays an important role in the early child socio-emotional development. Parental insightfulness is mainly influenced by characteristics and experience of caregivers, and could be improved through parental interventions. The present study focuses on parental insightfulness and aims to provide basis for further research and child health care practices on child development and early rehabilitation of special need children such as children with autism spectrum disorder.

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parental insightfulness / parenting behaviors / parenting quality / socio-emotional development / children

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ZHANG Chang, ZHOU Ting. Research advances in the association between parental insightfulness and early childhood development[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2022, 30(10): 1095-1098 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2021-1479

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