Parental marital conflict and early adolescent depression, loneliness: the chain mediating effects of parental psychological control and psychological resilience in adolescents / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

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Objective:To explore the mediating effects of parental psychological control and psychological resilience in adolescents between parental marital conflict and early adolescent depression, loneliness.Methods:From October to December 2022, a total of 805 adolescents from three middle schools in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province and Chongqing City were surveyed with children's perception of interparental conflict scale, the parental psychological control scale, Connor-Davidson resilience scale, the center for epidemiological studies depression scale, UCLA loneliness scale.SPSS 26.0 software was used for descriptive analysis, correlation analysis.Mplus 7.0 software was used for chain mediating model construction, the mediating effects were tested by Bootstrap method.Results:(1)Parental marital conflict (2.05±0.51), parental psychological control (2.53±0.88), early adolescent depression (0.84±0.62) and loneliness (2.02±0.59) were significantly and positively correlated with each other ( r=0.47-0.78, all P<0.01), while psychological resilience in adolescents(2.42±0.66) was significantly and negatively correlated with marital conflict, parental psychological control, early adolescent depression and loneliness ( r=-0.60--0.36, all P<0.01). (2)The direct effects of parental marital conflict on early adolescent depression and loneliness were 0.183, 0.170, accounting for 34.08%, 32.82% of the total effects.There were three paths of the indirect effects between parental marital conflict and early adolescent depression, loneliness.The specific indirect effects of parental psychological control were 0.148, 0.127, accounting for 27.56%, 24.52% of the total effects.The specific indirect effects of psychological resilience were 0.186, 0.199, accounting for 34.64%, 38.41% of the total effects.The chain mediating effects of parental psychological control and psychological resilience were 0.020, 0.022, accounting for 3.72%, 4.25% of the total effects. Conclusion:Parental marital conflict can directly affect early adolescent depression, loneliness, and can indirectly affect early adolescent depression, loneliness through parental psychological control and psychological resilience in adolescents.