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The impact of parental co-parenting on relational aggression in adolescents: the mediating role of peer relationships and self-control
Originally published 2025-04-22 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1551288 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What might a teenager notice about how caregivers coordinate their responses to peer conflict?
Adolescents describe adult coordination alongside peer relationships and relational aggression. Their perspective adds a different viewpoint from a parent-only account.
Who was studied?
550 students from three junior high schools in Inner Mongolia completed questionnaires.
Age / stage: Junior high school
Read with three questions
- Are the proposed pathways based on observed changes or questionnaires completed at one time?
- Which measures came from the same participant, and which had an independent source?
- How might the division of care in a different household affect how the findings apply?
Keep the limits in view
A cross-sectional account measures variables in the same period. It cannot establish which came first; participants reporting more than one measure may also introduce shared reporting bias.
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Yongzhi Jiang; Huizhe Wang; Lifang Tong (2025). The impact of parental co-parenting on relational aggression in adolescents: the mediating role of peer relationships and self-control Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1551288
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