The Relationship Between Parental Marital Conflict And Junior High School Students' Academic Burnout: The Mediating Role Of Parenting And Parental Attachment

The problem of students' academic burnout is still an important issue that plagues school educators and dependents.With the development of the times,the academic pressure faced by junior middle school students is not reduced with the increase of burden.In the real life,junior middle school students are still facing heavy academic burden,some junior middle school students even skip class and drop out of school due to unbearable academic pressure and the emergence of academic burnout.How to improve the students' interest in learning and prevent the students' academic burnout has become an urgent problem in the current education field.In order to achieve the effective prevention and guidance for the students with academic burnout,educators need to understand the real reason behind the students' academic burnout.Therefore,they can give the right guidance and help to the students.As an important environment for student growth,family has a very important impact on the development of students.Parents' marital conflict,parent-child attachment and co-parenting behavior play important role in family growth.In consequence,to explore the relationship among parental marital conflict,parent-child attachment and co-parenting and junior middle school academic burnout,the mechanism can provide better education suggestions for school educators and family dependents.In this study,800 junior middle school students has been recruited for this study to explore the relationship between parental marital conflict,parental attachment,co-parenting and academic burnout.Based on the hypotheses,the following conclusions are drawn:(1)Junior middle school students' academic burnout was at the middle level.There were significant gender differences.For male students,the score of academic burnout,emotional exhaustion and low accomplishment factor scores were significantly higher than that of female students.The level of emotional exhaustion of the third grade students was significantly higher than that of the first and second grade.The emotional exhaustion level of junior middle school students aged 17 and above was the highest.(2)There were significant differences in scores of academic burnout and de-personalization factors among junior middle school students under various parents'educational backgrounds.There were also significant differences in scores of academic burnout scores and low accomplishment factors among junior middle school students with different family income.(3)The marital conflict perception of junior middle school students,girls scored slightly higher than boys,but there was no significant gender difference.Those Junior middle school students who aged 13 years and below were most sensitive to marital conflict and conflict intensity.(4)There was significant grade difference on the supportive parents' co-parenting factor score as the score of third grade was significantly higher than that of first grade.However,there was no significant grade difference in the scores of un-supported parents' co-parenting factor.On the score of mother-child trust factor,girls are higher than boys,there are significant gender differences.There was significant grade difference on the father-child communication factor score as the score of first grade was significantly higher than that of second and third grade.(5)Conflict frequency and conflict intensity were significantly positively correlated with academic burnout scores and dimensions.They were significantly negatively correlated with support parents' co-parenting,but has a significant positive correlation with un-support parents' co-parenting they were also negatively correlated with father(mother)-child trust and father(mother)-child communication,but has a significant positive correlation with father(mother)-child alienation.Conflict resolution was significantly negatively correlated with academic burnout score and dimensions.The scores were significantly positively correlated with support parents' co-parenting,father(mother)-child trust and father(mother)-child communication,but has a significant negative correlation with father(mother)-child alienation and un-supported parents'co-parenting.(6)Emotional exhaustion,personalization and low accomplishment of academic burnout have a significant negative correlation with support parents' co-parenting,but significantly positively correlated with un-supported parents' co-parenting.Furthermore,they were significantly negatively correlated with father(mother)-child trust and father(mother)-child communication,but significantly positively correlated with father(mother)-child alienation.(7)Un-supported parents' co-parenting was significantly negatively correlated with father(mother)-child trust and father(mother)-child communication,but significantly positively correlated with father(mother)-child alienation.Support parents' co-parenting were significantly positively correlated with father(mother)-child trust and father(mother)-child communication,but significantly negatively correlated with father(mother)-child alienation.(8)Parental marital conflict can affect not only the academic burnout of junior middle school students directly,but also the junior middle school students' academic burnout indirectly through the intermediary effect of father-child attachment,mother-child attachment and parental co-parenting.In conclusion,the parents' marital conflict,parental attachment and parental co-parenting have an effect on the academic burnout of junior middle school students,parental attachment and parents' parental mediated the relationship between parents marital conflict and academic burnout.