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Associations among Interpersonal Relationships and High Students' Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: The Mediating Roles of Self-Esteem and Gender Differences

NIE Ruihong, ZHOU Nan, ZHANG Yuchi, FANG Xiaoyi   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2017-11-15 Published:2017-11-15

Abstract: This study sampled 794 high students from four middle schools in Beijing, and examined the distinct associations of parent-child relationships, teacher-student relationships, and peer relationships with high school students' internalizing and externalizing problems as well as the mediating roles of self-esteem. The results showed:(a) The associations between teacher-student relationship quality and students' internalizing and externalizing problems were stronger than those between students' adjustment difficulties and parent-child relationships and peer relationships; (b) Self-esteem served as a linking mechanism that explained the associations of parent-child, teach-student, and peer relationships with internalizing problems but not with externalizing problems. (c) Gender differences emerged such that self-esteem mediated the link between peer relationships and girls' internalizing problems but not boys' internalizing problems.

Key words: high school students, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, problem behaviors

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