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The Effect of Parenting Styles on Social Anxiety in Junior High School Students: The Chain Mediated Role of Rumination and Peer Acceptance

QIN Yao, PENG Yunshi   

  1. School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081
  • Published:2024-02-20

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Abstract: This study aimed to explore the effect and mechanism of Parenting styles on social anxiety of junior high school students. Based on a Cognitive-behavioral framework of social anxiety, and in order to clarify the relationship between parental rearing styles and social anxiety and its mechanism, the present study constructed a chain mediation model, focusing on the chain mediation of peer acceptance and rumination. Questionnaire method was used to investigate the relationship of parental rearing patterns, peer acceptance, rumination and social anxiety of 518 junior high school students. The results showed that: (1) Positive and negative parenting styles, social anxiety, rumination and peer acceptance were significantly correlated; (2) Negative parenting (rejection, over-protection) has a positive predictive effect on children’s social anxiety;(3) The influence of positive parenting and negative parenting styles on social anxiety includes two paths: the single mediating effect of rumination and the chain mediating effect of peer acceptance and rumination. This study enriches the research achievements in the field of middle school students’ social anxiety, and validates the related theories for preventing and intervening adolescents’social anxiety.

Key words: parenting styles, social anxiety, peer acceptance, rumination, junior high school students

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  • B844
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