Objective To explore the mediating effect of parenting style between maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and parenting stress, in order to provide reference for improving maternal parenting stress. Method In June 2021 and December 2021, baseline and follow-up surveys were conducted in mothers of preschool children from Wuhu, Lu'an and Fuyang city in Auhui province, respectively, and 6 111 valid questionnaires were included. ACEs (baseline), parenting style (baseline) and parenting stress (follow-up) were measured by Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire, Parenting Style Questionnaire and Parenting Stress Questionnaire for the mothers of preschool children, respectively. The association between variables was analyzed by Spearman correlation, and the mediating effect was tested by the Bootstrap program and PROCESS software. Results Maternal ACEs was positively correlated with negative parenting styles (doting, permissive, authoritarian, inconsistent) and parenting stress(r=0.217 - 0.329, P＜0.01). Parenting stress score was positively correlated with negative parenting styles(doting, permissive, authoritarian, inconsistent) (r=0.226 - 0.278, P＜0.01) and negatively correlated with positive parenting styles (r=- 0.340, P＜0.01). After controlling the confounding factors such as children's gender, age, parents' age and parents' education level, the mediating effects of maternal parenting style (doting, democratic, permissive, authoritarian and inconsistent) in the association between maternal ACEs and parenting stress were 14.74%, 7.86%, 18.64%, 11.89% and 22.51% (P＜0.01), respectively, and the common mediation effect of the five intermediary factors accounted for 36.84% of the total effect. Conclusions Parenting style plays a partial mediating role in the association between maternal ACEs and parenting stress. Improving maternal parenting style can help mothers with ACEs to alleviate parenting stress.
Key words
parenting style /
adverse childhood experiences /
parenting stress /
mediating effects
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