Children's Coping With Peer-Related Stress: Unraveling the Interplay of Culturally Relevant Parenting Behaviors and Temperament

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2026-07-13

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Koc-Arik, Gizem
Kazak Berument, Sibel

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This study examines how parenting behaviors, including culturally relevant practices associated with the Turkish context (e.g., comparison, parenting by lying), relate to children's coping with peer-related stress. It also scrutinizes the moderating role of warmth and children's temperament (e.g., reactivity and perceptual sensitivity). Participants included 320 children (8-10 years) and their mothers from a Turkish sample. Children reported on parenting behaviors and their own coping strategies, while mothers assessed their child's temperament. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that warmth and inductive reasoning were positively associated with primary and secondary engagement and disengagement coping strategies, whereas psychological control and parenting by lying were positively linked to disengagement strategies. Interestingly, parenting by lying was related to secondary engagement coping, suggesting cultural influences. Warmth moderated the role of parenting behaviors, mitigating the role of inductive reasoning and parenting by lying when warmth was high. Perceptual sensitivity amplified the negative role of psychological control on disengagement strategies, consistent with the diathesis-stress model.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/120349

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