Proactive Parenting and Children's Effortful Control: Mediating Role of Language and Indirect Intervention Effects

We examined associations of proactive parenting, child verbal ability, and child effortful control within the context of a randomized prevention trial focused on enhancing parenting practices in low‐income families. Participants ( N = 731) were assessed annually from the age of two to five, with half randomly assigned to the F amily C heck‐ U p ( FCU ). Results indicated that the child's verbal ability at the age of three partially mediated the...