Abstract: 736 4^th to 8^th,10^th to 12^th graders from liaoyang city were selected to explore the relationship between parental conflict,adolescent coping strategies and adolescent social adjustment.The subjects were asked to report their parental conflict,their coping strategies,their problem behavior,depression and well-being on an anonymous questionnaire.The result shows:(1)Parental conflict related to adolescent were significant more than those related to parents themselves.Parental conflict related to adolescent had significant gender and grade main effects;(2)Adolescents reported indirect coping strategies were significant more used than direct ones when their parent conflicted.Moreover,there were significant gender and grade main effects in both coping stragegies;(3)Adolescents'problem behaivor had significant gender main effects.And adolescents'academic problem,depression and well-being had significant grade main effects;(4)The more parental conflict were,and the less adolescent coping strategies used,the more problem behavior,academic problem and depression and the less of perceived well-being were;(5)Parental conflict related to adolescent significantly predicted adolescents'problem behavior and academic problem.Parental conflict related to parents had significant effect on adolescent academic problem and depression.Direct coping skills significantly predicted adolescents'problem behavior.While indirect coping strategies significantly influenced adolescents'well-being.

Key words: parental conflict, coping strategies, adolescent, social adjustment