Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 654-662.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.06

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The Mediating Role of Parenting between Parents' Marital Quality and Adolescents' Sibling Relationship and Its Gender Difference

LIU Qing1, FENG Lan2   

  1. 1. Research Center for Social Assistance, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434000;
    2. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070
  • 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 current longitudinal study explored the mediating effect of parenting between marital quality and adolescents' sibling relationship.The gender difference of the effect was also explored.A sample of 457 adolescents was recruited from six junior middle schools and five senior high schools.Results were as follows:(1) Positive parenting and harsh parenting mediated the relation between marital quality and adolescents' sibling relationship when key demographic variables were controlled;(2) There were also significant gender differences in the mediating effect of the parenting:harsh parenting had stronger influenceson boys than on girls,compared with positive parenting which had stronger mediating effect on girls than on boys.These findings have important implications on intervention and improvement of sibling relationship for adolescents.

Key words: parental marital quality, parenting, sibling relationship, adolescents

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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