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March 26, 2026Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsOpen Access

Beyond simple transmission: sequential mediation and gender moderation in the relationship between parental educational anxiety and adolescent help-seeking avoidance

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HZHaohan ZhaoLiaoning Normal UniversityMSMengyuan SunXZXingchen ZhuLiaoning Normal University

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Implication

This cross-sectional study examines parental educational anxiety's link to adolescents' help-seeking behavior, highlighting gender differences.

Key Points

  • The study aims to explore how parental educational anxiety influences adolescents' academic help-seeking behaviors and the role of perceived social support and self-efficacy.
  • Conducted a cross-sectional study with 695 adolescents aged 14 to 18 in Liaoning Province, China.
  • Participants completed self-report questionnaires on parental educational anxiety, social support, self-efficacy, and help-seeking behavior.
  • Employed structural equation modeling with bias-corrected bootstrap analysis to test mediation effects, and moderated regression analysis to investigate gender differences.
  • Parental educational anxiety positively correlates with adolescents' avoidant academic help-seeking behavior.
  • Perceived social support and self-efficacy act as independent mediators in this relationship.
  • Gender differences revealed that the mediation pathway is stronger for boys than for girls, who rely more on perceived social support.

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Zhao et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c4cc85fdc3bde448917d25https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07017-1
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