A Longitudinal Study Of The Relationship Between Parental Cooperative Parenting And Adolescents' Prosocial Behavior

Adolescence has always been known as a time of "storms",and there will be a lot of stress and conflict for both the teenager and his family.Because of this volatility,researchers tend to view this phase as a risky one,and thus explore more negative psychology and behavior in adolescents.However,in the growth and development stage of adolescents,it is more important to prevent or promote the development of positive behavior than to solve and deal with the problem behavior.Prosocial behavior is a hot topic in developmental psychology.At present,most researches focus on prosocial behavior in early childhood.Among the factors that influence the behavior of adolescents,family is the one that has the most closenest contact with them and has a great influence on them.On the basis of the Family System Theory and Attachment Theory,this study focuses on the characteristics of parental co-parenting,parental involvement,balanced parent-child connectedness and adolescent prosocial behavior around family factors,and the relationship between family variables and adolescent prosocial behavior,in order to find out the influence mechanism of family environment variables on adolescent prosocial behavior.This study mainly includes two studies: First of all,because there are few studies on parent-child relationship of balanced connectedness in China and lack of relevant measurement tools,this study is based on the relevant literature,to measure the balance of parent-child relationship between adolescents and their parents in the context of Chinese culture,a parent-child relationship questionnaire was developed.Secondly,using longitudinal design,students from two middle schools in Nanjing were selected to fill out four questionnaires —— The adolescent appraisal co-parenting questionnaire,the adolescent appraisal parental involvement questionnaire,the adolescent perceived balanced parent-child connectedness questionnaire and the adolescent prosocial behavior tendency questionnaire,once every 3 months,a total of 3 times.The results of this study are as follows:(1)The questionnaire for balanced parent-child connectedness has high reliability and validity,and can be used as a tool to understand the balance of parent-child relationship between adolescents and parents.(2)The mainstream of parental co-parenting is good,which is characterized by more behaviors of solidarity and consistenty,and less behaviors of conflict and belittling.The father and mother's co-parenting has significant difference in different dimensions.The father's behavior of solidarity,consistency and conflict was significantly lower than that of the mother,and the behavior of debasing was significantly higher than that of the mother,both of them showed: Rule Teaching > Life Care > Emotional Leisure > academic support.(3)Adolescents' sense of close-autonomy balance was significantly higher to their mothers than to their fathers,and there were significant differences in gender and grade.There was no gender difference in the perception of father's close-autonomy balance,but girls perception of Mother's close-autonomy balance were significantly higher than that of boys,the perception of father's close-autonomy balanced parent-child relationship was significantly higher in senior one than in junior one and senior two.In the perception of Mother's close-autonomy balanced parent-child relationship,senior one was significantly higher than in junior one and junior two,the grade two of senior high school is significantly higher than grade one of junior high school.On the whole,students in the first grade of senior high school had the strongest perception of the closeautonomous balance of parent-child relationship.(4)In general,there is no significant difference in prosocial behavior between gender,but the anonymous and altruistic tendencies of female students are significantly higher than those of male students;whether there are significant differences in prosocial behavior at different grades that grade two students in senior high school was significantly lower than that of grade one,grade two and grade one students in junior high school.(5)Each variable showed different development characteristics within six months.Among them,fathers' s co-parenting is relatively stable,and mothers' co-parenting increases with time;there is a significant difference in parenting involvement at different time points.Father's parenting involvement show a declining and then rising trend,and mother's parenting involvement show an upward trend;Adolescents 'perception of father's intimate-autonomous balance of parent-child relationship does not change with time,and the perception of mother's intimate-autonomous balance of parent-child relationship is on the rise;while the tendency of adolescents' prosocial behavior is relatively stable,with no significant changes within within half a year.(6)There was a positive correlation between parental co-parenting,parenting involvement,balanced parent-child connectedness and adolescent prosocial behavior.Parental involvement and parental closeness-autonomy balance have a chain-mediated effect between parental co-parenting and prosocial behavior.Among them,the direct effect of parents' co-parenting is not significant.Parental involvement and closenessautonomous balance of parent-child relationship play a full chain mediation effect on co-parenting and prosocial behavior.