Interparental Violence and Early Adolescents’ Adjustment Problems in China: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model of Parental Warmth and Emotional Insecurity

This study analyzed the relationships between exposure to interparental violence and adolescents’ adjustment problems. It also explored the mediating role of emotional insecurity and the moderating role of parental warmth in these relationships. Five hundred and seventy-eight early adolescents from...

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Published in:Journal of interpersonal violence 2022-04, Vol.37 (7-8), p.NP5050-NP5073
Main Authors: Xiang, Xiaoping, Wang, Juan, Wu, Chaoyue, Chen, Yiting
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Childrearing practices
Emotions
Humans
Migrants
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Problem Behavior
Public schools
Schools
Security
Teenagers
Trauma
Violence
Violence - psychology
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Summary:This study analyzed the relationships between exposure to interparental violence and adolescents’ adjustment problems. It also explored the mediating role of emotional insecurity and the moderating role of parental warmth in these relationships. Five hundred and seventy-eight early adolescents from three migrant primary schools and one public school in Beijing participated in this survey, reporting on their perceived interparental violence, emotional insecurity, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems. The results revealed that emotional insecurity partially mediated the association between interparental violence and all three indicators of adjustment problems, with stronger mediating effects on PTSS and internalizing problems than on externalizing problems; parental warmth buffered the association between emotional insecurity and internalizing/externalizing problems. This study adds insights to present literature on how interparental violence contributes to different aspects of adolescents’ adjustment problems in the Chinese context.
ISSN:0886-2605
1552-6518
DOI:10.1177/0886260520959636