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April 30, 2026BMC PsychologyOpen Access

Grandparental involvement and preschoolers’ externalizing problem behaviors: the mediating roles of family functioning and emotion regulation

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YXYanzhen XuLCLan ChenYNYakun Ni

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Randomized trial investigates how grandparent involvement affects preschoolers' behavior via family dynamics and emotion regulation, implying critical family roles.

Key Points

  • This study investigates how grandparental involvement relates to preschoolers' externalizing problem behaviors, with family functioning and emotion regulation as mediators.
  • Data collected from 802 preschoolers aged 3 to 6 in three-generation households using questionnaires.
  • Statistical analyses conducted using SPSS, including correlation, regression, and path analysis with bootstrap method (5,000 iterations).
  • Examined mediation effects on relationships among grandparental involvement, family functioning, emotion regulation, and externalizing behaviors.
  • Family functioning and emotion regulation significantly mediated the effect of grandparental involvement on externalizing behaviors; chain mediator effect size was 5.78%.
  • Total mediating effect size was 48.35%, suggesting strong mediation by both factors.
  • Improvements in family functioning and emotion regulation may reduce preschoolers' externalizing behaviors.

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Xu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f2f1771e5f7920c638728fhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-026-04632-0
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