Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 226-234.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.02.08

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Coparenting and School Adaptation in Families with Junior Middle School Students: The Role of Parental Involvement and Attachment and Parent Difference

LIU Chang1, WU Xinchun2,3, ZOU Shengqi4   

  1. 1. Preschool Academy, Beijing Institute of Education, Beijing 100120;
    2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    3. Deparment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087;
    4. School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081
  • Published:2025-03-17

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Abstract: Based on ecological model of coparenting, a total of 1370 junior middle school students were surveyed to explore the effect of coparenting on school adaptation and examine the mediated role of parental involvement and attachment. Structural equation modeling results revealed social competence was mainly influenced by family integrity of coparenting, via the chain mediations of parental involvement and attachment. Antisocial behavior was influenced by family integrity, conflict and disparagement, in which the effect of negative coparenting behaviors on school adaptation mediated by parental attachment. Reprimand was the only dimension for which father had more contribution to social competence than that of mother. In addition, significant differences in mediating effect per gender of parent were mainly found that the associations between family integrity, conflict and school adaptation. The effect size of mediating role showed significantly greater of father than that of mother, excepting serial mediation in the associations between family integrity and social competence. These findings suggested that family integrity and attachment played an important role to school adaptation.

Key words: coparenting, school adaptation, parental involvement, attachment, junior middle school students

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