Objective To explore the relationship among negative emotions,family functioning and dyadic coping in parents of children with leukemia.Methods 221 pairs of such parents were conveniently selected and surveyed using DCI,hospital anxiety and depression scale,and FACES.The relationships among the three were analyzed through the actor-partner interdependence mediation model(APIMeM).Results Re-sults showed that there was a subject effect of both parents'anxiety scores on their own DCI scores for children with leukemia(β=-0.50,-0.20),an object effect of the child's mother's anxiety on the father's DCI scores(β=-0.35),and a subject-object effect of the child's parent's DCI scores on both their own and their spouse's FACES scores(β=0.37,0.33,0.17,0.11).The mediating effect of the DCI scores of these parents between the mother's anxiety score and the FACES score was 61%and 47%;the mediating effect between the father's anxiety score and the FACES score should be 94%and 72%.Conclusions Parent's family functioning is not only influenced by themselves but also by their partners,and attention needs to be paid to the effect of the dichotomous interaction level of them on anxiety and family functioning.Interven-tion with these parents as a whole should be conducted to improve the stability of the family.
leukemiachilddyadic copingfamily functionactor-partner interdependence mediation model