Abstract

This study aims to verify whether the four sub-factors of children's executive function difficulties have parallel multiple mediation effects on the relationship between maternal authoritative parenting behavior and the four sub-factors of children's pragmatic language skills. The main findings can be summarized as follows: First, the sub-factors of children's executive function difficulties demonstrated parallel multiple mediation effects on the relationship between maternal authoritative parenting behavior and the sub-factors of children's pragmatic language skills of which were significant. The mediation effects were identified as partial mediation. Second, an analysis of the specific mediation effects showed that, among planning-organization difficulties and behavior control difficulties, both of which showed significant simple mediation effects, behavior control difficulties had a greater mediation effect. Based on these results, three implications are presented.