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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Child Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Child Ego-Resilience

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Developmental

  • Niva Manchanda
    University of California, Riverside
  • Brianne Coulombe
    University of California, Riverside
  • Tuppett Yates
    University Of California, Riverside

Abstract

The current study explored the prospective relations between parent-child relationship quality and prosocial behavior, as mediated by child ego resilience, using observational measures at ages 6, 7, and 8. Parent-child relationship quality positively predicted children’s prosocial development as a function of its influence on child ego resilience.

Families/Parenting