Junior middle school is the initial stage at very beginning of adolence, the physical and psychological development of students at this stage is rapid, but unbalanced. They are sensitive to the environment, the negative affect of depression, pressure, anxiety and so on has accelerated when they are enter this period. At the same time, teenagers suffer from great academic pressure, because the whole society focus only on academic achievement. To explore the relationship between parent-child relationship intimacy, peer relationship and negative affect and the mediating role of peer relationship from this study. Hope to help the students through adolence smoothly by finding the correlationship from the perspective of parents and peers.
Research Methods: This study adopts questionnaire online to survey parent-child relationships, peer relationships and emotional states of 320 junior school students at Grade 7 and Grade 8 in Nantong city, Jiangsu province, 276 valid questionnaires. The Standardized Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale, Parent-Child Relationship Scale, Peer Relationships Scale for Children and Adolescents were used for the study. Major methods include descriptive statistics, T-test, analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis and Bootstrap confidence interval test.
Research Results:
(1) From the parent-child relationship dimension, parent-child relationship is negatively correlated with the overall and sub-dimensions of negative affect, and has a negative prediction on negative affect. Parent-child relationship was significantly correlated with peer relationship. There are significant differences in parent-child relationship between parents' educational background and father's occupation.
(2) Peer relationship is significantly positively correlated with negative affect overall and sub-dimensions (the score is higher, the peer relationship is worse), and there are significant differences in grade, gender and parents' education background. Peer relationship is significantly negatively correlated with parent-child relationship.
(3) There were significant differences in the overall and sub-dimensions of negative affect in the father's educational background, and the children whose father with a bachelor's degree or above had the lowest negative affect.
(4) The peer relationships play a mediating role between the parent-child relationship and negative affect.、
Research Conclusion: Parent-child relationships not only impact adolescents' negative affect directly, but also indirectly impact adolescents' negative affect through peer relationships, and peer relationships play a partial mediating role.
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