Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The relationship between parent-child relationship and prosocial behavior among Chinese children: the mediating roles of labor participation and sense of social responsibility
Originally published 2026-07-13 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1804412 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Which household responsibilities feel like a contribution to someone else?
For the Kindness section, this study offers a way to examine children’s own accounts of family closeness, household participation and prosocial behavior.
Who was studied?
810 primary-school students reporting family relationships and social responsibility
Age / stage: Primary school
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate children’s own accounts of family closeness, household participation and prosocial behavior?
- Whose report describes the parent, the child and the outcome, and where might those reports differ?
- How did the questionnaires separate a child’s household participation from their sense of social responsibility?
Keep the limits in view
Children reported the main variables, which can inflate associations among family closeness, responsibilities and prosocial tendencies.
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Xurui Zhang; Weiwei Tang; Qingqing Miao; Haitian Lan; Fangqi Wang; Shiqi Wang; Jing Tao; Shuiping Deng; Rui Wang; Jinhua Gu; Cheng Chen; Zinan Zhang; Xin Cao (2026). The relationship between parent-child relationship and prosocial behavior among Chinese children: the mediating roles of labor participation and sense of social responsibility Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1804412
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