Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 718-725.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.13

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The Relationship between Negative Life Events and the Internalizing Problems among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support and the Moderating Role of Parent-adolescent Cohesion

ZHANG Wen, WANG Zhenhong   

  1. Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062
  • Published:2023-09-11
  • Supported by:
    The project was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC1905301);National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078115,21776108,21690083,22008078).

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Abstract: The present study examined the relation between negative life events and adolescents' internalizing problems, as well as the mediating role of social support and moderating role of parent-child cohesion. 1005 adolescents joined our survey by fulfilling the Youth Self-Report, Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check- list, Social Support Questionnaire, Parent-Adolescent Cohesion Questionnaire. The result showed that: (1) Negative life events predicted adolescents' internalizing problems positively; (2) Social support played mediating role in the relationship between negative life events and adolescents' internalizing problems; (3) Parent-adolescent cohesion moderated the relationship between negative life events and adolescents' internalizing problems. The present study exhibited that negative life events could not only affect adolescents' internalizing problems directly, but also affect adolescents' internalizing problems through the mediating effect of social support indirectly. parent-adolescent cohesion could moderate the impact of negative life events on internalizing problems, and negative life events had a greater impact on internalizing problems with high level of parent-adolescent cohension.

Key words: negative life events, internalizing problems, social support, parent-adolescent cohesion, adolescents

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  • B844
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