The Impact of Parents’ Marital Quality on Children's Prosocial Behavior

Abstract

Published UBLISHED in Psychological Development and Education, the study attempts to explore the relation between children's prosocial behavior and parents’ marital quality, emotional expression, and parenting behavior. The research uses the couples' adaptation scale, parental emotional expression scale, parenting behavior scale and strength scale to investigate 442 parents of school-age children in grades 1-6 from two schools in a city in Guizhou Province.