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Parental Marital Conflict and Bullying among Middle School Students: Roles of Deviant Peer Affiliation and Sensation Seeking

LIU Shen1, FAN Hang2, WANG Zhe3, SONG Minghua4, TENG Han1   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036;
    2. Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872;
    3. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022;
    4. Mental Health Education Guidance Center, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000
  • Published:2025-03-17

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Abstract: In order to investigate the relationship between parental marital conflict and bullying among middle school students, and to explore roles of deviant peer interaction and sensation seeking, the current study used the questionnaire method to investigate 508 middle school students. The results showed that: (1) When controlling gender and grade, parental marital conflict significantly positively predicted middle school students’ bullying; (2) Deviant peer affiliation partially mediated the relationship between parental marital conflict and middle school students’ bullying; (3) Sensation seeking moderated the latter half path of “parental marital conflict → deviant peer affiliation → middle school students’ bullying”. The findings of the current study are not only conducive to understanding the relationship between parental marital conflict and middle school students’ bullying and its internal mechanism from the perspective of the ecosystem theory, but also provide theoretical and empirical evidence for preventing and intervening the incidence of middle school students’ bullying.

Key words: parental marital conflict, bullying, deviant peer affiliation, sensation seeking, middle school students

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