Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
Household chaos and preschool migrant children’s self-regulation: the mediating role of parent–child conflict and the moderating role of mindful parenting
Originally published 2025-05-27 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1416040 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
When our schedule becomes unpredictable, what helps my child resume an activity?
This article examines how family conflict and mindful parenting enter accounts of self-regulation in migrant preschoolers. The independence lens asks which demands children can already manage and where practice or adult support still matters.
Who was studied?
Chinese preschool migrant children and families in a study of household chaos and conflict.
Age / stage: Preschool years
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how family conflict and mindful parenting enter accounts of self-regulation in migrant preschoolers?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is chinese preschool migrant children and families in a study of household chaos and conflict.
Keep the limits in view
The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.
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Huihui Zhu; Lina Shu; Xiaoying Wang; Zhechuan Xu (2025). Household chaos and preschool migrant children’s self-regulation: the mediating role of parent–child conflict and the moderating role of mindful parenting Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1416040
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