Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 726-734.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.14

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The Relationship between Parental Conflict and Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior: Roles of Emotional Security and School Connectedness

HONG Xinwei1, MIAO Lingtong2, FAN Hang3, SONG Minghua4, ZHU Tingting1, LIU Shen5, ZHANG Lin1   

  1. 1. Department and Institute of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211;
    2. College of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816;
    3. Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872;
    4. Mental Health Education Guidance Center, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000;
    5. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022
  • 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: In the current study, 585 middle school students were recruited to investigate the influence of parental conflict on adolescents' aggressive behavior through questionnaires, and to explore the mediating role of emotional security and whether the process is regulated by school connectedness. The results showed that: (1) Emotional security mediated partly the relationship between parental conflict and adolescents' aggressive behavior; (2) School connectedness moderated the relationship between parental conflict and aggressive behavior, and the relationship between emotional security and aggressive behavior,that is, parental conflict has a weaker predictive effect on aggressive behavior, while emotional security has a stronger predictive effect on aggressive behavior at the high school connectedness level, and vice versa. The result helps to understand the mechanism of parental conflict on adolescents' aggressive behavior which provides important theoretical and practical value for enhancing the intensity of adolescents' emotional security and reducing the occurrence of aggressive behavior.

Key words: parental conflict, aggressive behavior, emotional security, school connectedness, adolescent

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  • B844
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