Migrant Mothers’ Acculturative Stress and Young Children’s Social Skills in South Korea: The Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting and the Moderating Roles of Multicultural Sensitivity and Social Support
Randomized trial examines mindful parenting's impact on children's social skills for migrant mothers, highlighting environmental support.
Key Points
This study aims to explore how acculturative stress affects the social skills of young children of migrant mothers, focusing on the roles of mindful parenting and environmental support.
Data were collected from 338 migrant mothers using validated self-report measures.
The PROCESS Macro was applied to analyze moderated mediation.
Maternal education, household income, spouse's origin, and migration reasons were controlled.
Acculturative stress was linked to lower children's social skills, mediated by decreased mindful parenting (p<0.05).
Multicultural sensitivity and social support significantly moderated the effects of stress on parenting and children's skills.
Enhanced mindful parenting and social support improved children's social competencies.