Although the main effects of psychological control and externalizing behavior were statistically significant, the predicted interaction effects failed to reach significance for children with two migrant parents and with only a migrant father, suggesting that externalizing problem behavior did not moderate the association between psychological control and anxiety in left-behind children populations (see Table 3 ).
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Maternal Psychological Control and Rural Left-Behind Children's Anxiety: The Moderating Role of Externalizing Problem Behavior and Teacher Support.
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To some extent, these findings demonstrated that externalizing problem behavior may moderate the association between psychological control parenting and children's anxiety; that is, this association may be significant at a higher level of externalizing behavior, but it may become non-significant at a lower level of externalizing behavior.