Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 729-739.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.06.10

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The Roles of Parent-child Triangulation and Psychological Resilience in the Relationship between Interparental Conflict and Adolescents' Problem Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model

GAO Wen1,2, WANG Yuhong1, Fang Zhen1, LIU Mingyan1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029;
    2. Liaonig Collaborative Innovation Center of Children and Adolescents Healthy Personality Assessment and Cultivation, Dalian 116029
  • Published:2019-11-20

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Abstract: To investigate the mediating effects of three kinds of parent-child triangulation and the moderated effect of adolescents' resilience in the relationship between interparental conflict and adolescents' problem behaviors, this study surveyed 647 middle school students. The results of a moderated mediation model showed, (1) interparental conflict had a positive prediction on adolescents' problem behaviors with the control of age and gender; (2)two kinds of parent-child triangulation, scapegoating and cross-generational alliance, played intermediary roles between interparental conflict and adolescents' problem behaviors, but parentification did not; (3)adolescents' resilience had a moderating effect on the relationship between above mentioned two kinds of parent-child triangulation and adolescents' problem behaviors. These results revealed interparental conflict not only had a direct effect on problem behaviors of adolescents, but also had indirect effects through cross-generational alliance and scapegoating; when highly involved in cross-generational alliance or regarded as the scapegoat, adolescents with high resilience showed less problem behaviors than their agemates with low resilience.

Key words: adolescents, interparental conflict, problem behaviors, parent-child triangulation, resilience

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  • B844
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