Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 740-748.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.06.11

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The Effect of Parental Marital Quality and Coparenting on Adolescent Problem Behavior: Simultaneously Spillover or Lagged Spillover?

LU Furong1, ZHANG Cai2, LIU Dandan2   

  1. 1. School of Education Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006;
    2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2019-11-20

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Abstract: To explore the effect of spillover effect between parental marital quality and coparenting on adolescent problem behavior,A total of 416 junior middle school students were conducted a 6-month follow-up study by questionnaire. The questionnaires including Parental Marital Quality Questionnaire, Coparenting Scale and SDQ Scale. The results as follows:(1) There are simultaneously spillover and lagged spillover between parental marital quality and coparenting; (2)The father's marital quality has a negative effect on adolescent problem behavior through the father's cooperative coparenting at the same time;(3)And the mother's marital quality has a positive effect on adolescent problem behavior through the mother's conflict and undermining coparenting not only at the same time but also in different time. The results confirmed that the parental marital quality, mother's conflict and undermining coparenting, have a long-term and important impact on adolescent problem behavior.

Key words: adolescent, problem behavior, coparenting, marital quality, spillover effect

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  • B844
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