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Marital Conflict, Anxiety and Parenting Styles of High School Parents: Actor-partner Interdependence Moderation Model

XIA Yanyu1, LI Dan1, MA Yange1, HAN Xianguo1, LI Zhengyun2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234;
    2. Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, Shanghai 200032
  • Published:2024-05-15

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Abstract: The data from 1024 pairs of parents of high school students at two schools were used to analyze the relationship between marital conflicts and parenting styles, as well as the moderating role of anxiety, with the help of the actor-partner interdependence moderation model. The results found that: (1) Both paternal and maternal marital conflict negatively predicted their warm acceptance and positively predicted their rejection punishment; (2) Maternal anxiety exacerbated the negative partner effect of paternal marital conflict on maternal warmth acceptance and attenuated the negative actor effect of maternal marital conflict on their warmth acceptance; (3) Paternal anxiety exacerbated the positive actor effect of paternal marital conflict on their rejection punishment, and maternal anxiety attenuated the positive partner effect of paternal marital conflict on maternal rejection punishment. The results contribute to understanding the impact of marital conflict on parenting styles from a dyadic perspective, and the moderating effects that anxiety plays in the above relationships.

Key words: high school parents, marital conflict, parenting styles, anxiety, actor-partner interdependence model

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  • B844
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