The Relationship between Parents Social and Cultural Capital with Children's Social Skills: The Mediating Role of Parents' Styles in coping styles with children's negative emotionss

Parents have a very important role in the formation of social skills in their children, hence The purpose of this study is to explain the social skills of children based on the Parent's Social Capital and Cultural Capital‎‎of parents concerning the mediating role of coping styles with children's negative emotions (CCNE).

The research method is a descriptive correlation. The statistical population was the parents of primary school students in Yazd in the academic year ‎2020-2021‎. The sample size was 500 people who were selected with the multi-stage cluster sampling method and 419 people completed the questionnaires. Research measurement included ‎ the Social skills rating system, CCNES, Family Social Capital, and cultural Capital Scale. SmartPls3 software was also used to analyze the data by structural equation modeling.

The results showed that social capital, both directly (β= 0.26, P=0.002) and in a process due to supportive (β= 0.044, P=0.009) and non-supportive CCNE (β= 0.033, P=0.013) can predict children's social skills. Cultural capital is directly (β= 0.11, P=0.043) related to supportive CCNE. Social capital can play a significant role in explaining how parents deal with their children's emotions (β= 0.22, P=0.001) and in some way affect their children's emotional socialization. Model fitness indices (NFI = 0.61, SRMR =0.089) also showed that the model has ‎an acceptable fitness. ‎

In general, having more of these social and cultural capitals causes mental and behavioral changes in social actors (parents and children) and these changes are reflected in parents' styles in dealing with emotions as well as children's social skills.