This study examined the role of parental involvement in the home learning environment in the association between parental mental health and child cognitive performance. In a sample of 174 three‐ to five‐year‐old children (52% female, 97% White, 7% Hispanic, 2019–2022), playful activities moderated the relation between parental general depression and child verbal reasoning and acquired verbal knowledge. However, there was no evidence that parental involvement moderated the association between parental mental health and child spatial reasoning. These results improve our understanding of the pathways by which parental mental health, even in a non‐clinical community sample, relate to child outcomes and raise the possibility of leveraging playful activities as one mechanism to alleviate the potential role of parental mental health difficulties.

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有趣的活动可以缓解父母心理健康困难与儿童语言结果之间的关系


本研究考察了父母参与家庭学习环境在父母心理健康与儿童认知表现之间关联中的作用。在 174 名 3 至 5 岁儿童（52% 为女性，97% 为白人，7% 为西班牙裔，2019-2022 年）的样本中，游戏活动调节了父母普遍抑郁与儿童语言推理和获得的语言知识之间的关系。然而，没有证据表明父母的参与调节了父母心理健康与儿童空间推理之间的关联。这些结果提高了我们对父母心理健康与儿童结果相关的途径的理解，即使在非临床社区样本中，并提高了利用游戏活动作为一种机制来减轻父母心理健康困难的潜在作用的可能性。