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December 24, 2025BMC PsychologyOpen Access

How parental educational anxiety fuels adolescent depression: the mediating chain of moral disengagement and negative coping, and the buffering role of psychological resilience

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YLYu LuDalian University of Foreign LanguagesHZHaohan ZhaoLiaoning Normal UniversityXZXingchen ZhuLiaoning Normal University

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Cross-sectional study demonstrates that parental educational anxiety increases adolescent depression via moral disengagement and poor coping, highlighting the protective buffer of resilience.

Key Points

  • To examine the psychological pathways through which parental educational anxiety relates to adolescent depression, testing moral disengagement and negative coping as sequential mediators and psychological resilience as a moderator.
  • Recruited 1,979 parent-adolescent dyads across six schools in three provinces in China (Liaoning, Shandong, and Shanghai) using standardized questionnaires administered separately.
  • Conducted structural equation modeling with Mplus 8.3 to evaluate chain mediation pathways and tested moderation effects of psychological resilience using SPSS 23.0.
  • Parental educational anxiety exhibited a significant direct positive association with adolescent depression (β = 0.304, t = 14.929, p < 0.001).
  • Moral disengagement was positively linked to negative coping style (β = 0.270, t = 13.548, p < 0.001), with both variables acting as a significant sequential mediating chain between parental anxiety and depression.
  • Psychological resilience significantly moderated this pathway, buffering and attenuating the relationship between parental educational anxiety and adolescent depressive symptoms (p < 0.001).

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Lu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a124b38ea48cb855a348af9https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-03718-5
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