Tony Xing Tan, Joy Huanhuan Wang, Yi Zhou, Yaxuan Deng
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ABSTRACTOur study examined young children’s pre-academic and social skills in relation to parental locus of control and children’s behaviours of ADHD. The participants were parents of 1,502 children from four Chinese kindergartens (Mage = 4.59, SD = 0.93; Girls: 51.40%). Data on six domains of children’s pre-academic and social skills, parental external and internal locus of control, and children’s inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity were obtained with the Early Learning and Development for Children Aged 3 to 6 years, the Parental Locus of Control scale, and the ADHD Rating Scale-IV Preschool Home Version respectively. Hierarchical regression results showed that controlling for other variables, higher scores in parental external locus of control and child inattention behaviours significantly predicted lower scores in all six domains, while higher scores in internal locus of control and child hyperactivity/impulsivity behaviours predicted higher scores in all six domains (R2 ranged from 18.0% to 47.0%). Noticeably, parental locus of control explained a smaller amount of the variance (1.0–5.0%) than behaviours of ADHD (5.0–11.0%) in the children’s outcomes.KEYWORDS: Preschool childrenADHDlocus of controlpre-academic skillssocial skills Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementData are available from the first author upon request.Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2268517.Additional informationNotes on contributorsTony Xing TanTony Xing Tan is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of South Florida. He was trained in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA.Joy Huanhuan WangJoy Huanhuan Wang is an Assistant Professor of School Psychology at Texas Tech University. She was trained in School Psychology at the College of Education, the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.Yi ZhouYi Zhou was trained in Early Childhood Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA.Yaxuan DengYaxuan Deng studies Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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