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June 27, 2026Child & Family Social Work

Parental Overprotection and Adolescent Mental Health: The Mediating Roles of Psychological Resilience and Bullying Victimization

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GCG ChenXLXiawei LiuJCJunfan Chen

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Overview

Randomized trial examines how overprotective parenting affects mental health in adolescents, suggesting critical intervention strategies.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore the relationship between parental overprotection and adolescent mental health, focusing on resilience and bullying.
  • Clinical sample of 219 adolescents and young adults aged 12–25 from a psychiatric outpatient clinic in China.
  • Self-report measures assessed parental overprotection, resilience, bullying victimization, psychotic-like experiences, depression, and anxiety.
  • Sequential mediation analyses evaluated the indirect pathways between variables.
  • Parental overprotection was positively associated with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), depression, and anxiety symptoms.
  • All three indirect pathways were significant: lower resilience, higher bullying victimization, and the sequential pathway from lower resilience to greater bullying victimization.
  • Direct effects of parental overprotection on mental health outcomes remained significant, indicating only partial mediation.

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Chen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3f6817aea7db3c1953f541https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.70234
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