Parental Marital Conflict and Adolescents'Depression:The Effects of Sibling Relationship and Psychological Resilience
In order to give an interpretation for the relationship and complex mechanisms between parental marital conflict and adoles-cents'depression,the study conducted a moderated mediation model to examine the effects of parental marital conflict,sibling relation-ship and psychological resilience on adolescents'depression and the underlying mechanism.A total of 1398 adolescents participated in this study.The results showed that:(1)Parental marital conflict positively predicted adolescents'depression when controlling for gender and age;(2)Sibling relationship mediated the relationship between parental marital conflict and adolescents'depression;(3)Psycho-logical resilience regulated the second half of the mediation process in which parental marital conflict affected adolescents'depression through sibling relationship.The findings revealed that the internal mechanism of parental marital conflict affecting adolescents'depres-sion had important theoretical and empirical value for improving the quality of sibling relationship,preventing and interventing adoles-cents'depression.