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June 19, 2026Communications PsychologyOpen Access

Cross-cultural evidence for positive control and mind-mindedness as buffers for parental distress

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CHClaire HughesEFElian FinkAAAyalguu Agtchin

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Overview

Randomized trial investigates protective factors for parental distress in different cultures, suggesting wide-reaching implications for emotional adjustment.

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore how positive control and mind-mindedness can buffer the effects of parental distress on children’s emotional outcomes across different cultures.
  • Included 849 parent-child dyads from England, Hong Kong, and Mainland China
  • Assessed parental distress and child internalizing problems via ratings and speech samples
  • Conducted a single-paper meta-analysis to examine associations and effects across sites.
  • Parental distress correlated with increased child internalizing problems and low positive control consistently across all sites
  • Low mind-mindedness was linked to parental distress only in England
  • Positive control buffered distress-internalizing associations specifically in Mainland China.

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Hughes et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a34dfa365a5b0777af2eafdhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00484-x
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