Table 3 Mediation Effect Analysis of firstborn children's executive function between parenting stress and parenting quality.

From: Parenting style and young children's executive function mediate the relationship between parenting stress and parenting quality in two-child families

Predictive variables

Result variables

R2

F

β

SE

t

Parenting stress

Parenting quality

0.487

23.237

− 0.342

0.038

− 8.757***

Parenting stress

Firstborn executive function

0.341

19.411

− 0.402

0.037

− 9.009***

Parenting stress

Parenting quality

0.258

15.276

− 0.271

0.025

− 6.322***

Firstborn executive function

0.319

0.076

7.851***

  1. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
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