Psychological Development and Education ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 417-425.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2018.04.05

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The Association between Parental Involvement and Adolescent's Prosocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Parent-child Attachment

HOU Fen1,2, WU Xinchun2, ZOU Shengqi2, LIU Chang3, HUANG Binbin2   

  1. 1. School of Education, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai 519087, China;
    2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    3. Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Beijing Institute of Education, Beijing 100120, China
  • Online:2018-07-15 Published:2018-07-15

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Abstract: This study investigated the association between adolescent's perceptions of parental involvement and their prosocial behaviors. Parental Involvement Questionnaire (adolescent version), Inventory of Parent-Child Attachment, and Prosocial Behavior Subscale were administered to 2370 adolescents in primary school fifth grade, junior middle school second grade, and high school second grade from Beijing, Guangdong, Henan and Liaoning of China. Structural equation modeling revealed that:(1) Parental involvement were positively correlated with adolescent's prosocial behaviors in which mothers'contribution was greater than that of fathers'; (2) Parent-child attachment mediated the association between parental involvement and adolescent's prosocial behaviors; (3) There are different mechanisms in which the association between father and mother involvement and adolescent's prosocial behavior:While father-child attachment fully mediated the association between father involvement and prosocial behavior; mother involvement played positive association with prosocial behavior through mother-child attachment partly mediating role, and negative association through the suppressing effects of father-child attachment.

Key words: parental involvement, parent-child attachment, prosocial behavior, adolescent

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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