Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The effects of parental mindfulness on preschoolers’ prosocial behavior: the chain mediating model of marital quality, authoritative parenting, and the sex difference
Originally published 2026-02-12 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1703808 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
When do adults in our home model noticing another person’s needs?
This article addresses preschool prosocial behavior alongside mindfulness and family relationships.
Who was studied?
Families reporting on Chinese preschoolers and their home relationships
Age / stage: Preschool
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate preschool prosocial behavior alongside mindfulness and family relationships?
- Whose report describes the parent, the child and the outcome, and where might those reports differ?
- How were preschoolers’ prosocial behavior and the adults’ relationship quality assessed?
Keep the limits in view
The proposed pathways through marital quality and parenting are statistical relationships. They do not establish the sequence by which mindfulness affects a child.
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Mengmeng Zhang; Lei Qiao; Yijing Zhang; Li Li; Shangning Zhao; Tosin Yinka Akintunde; Xiantong Yang (2026). The effects of parental mindfulness on preschoolers’ prosocial behavior: the chain mediating model of marital quality, authoritative parenting, and the sex difference Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1703808
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