Relationship between Interparental Conflict and Mental Health of Adolescents:the Serial Mediating Role of Family Resilience and Psychological Security
Objective:To explore the relationship between interparental conflict and mental health and the serial medi-ating role of family resilience and psychological security in it.Methods:The Interparental Conflict Scale,Family Resil-ience Questionnaire,Sense of Security Scale,DASS-21 depression subscale,and Subjective Sell-being Scale were used to investigate 777 adolescents.Results:(1)The direct effects of interparental conflict on adolescents'depression and subjec-tive well-being were significant;(2)Interparental conflict affected adolescents'depression through the separate mediation of psychological security as well as the serial mediation of family resilience and psychological security;(3)Interparental con-flict had an impact on the subjective well-being of adolescents through the individual mediations of family resilience and psychological security,as well as through the combined sequential mediations of both factors.Conclusion:Family resil-ience and psychological security function as serial mediators between interparental conflict and adolescents'mental health.