Author(s)

Zean Wu ¹, Zhiying Song ¹, Shiliang He ², Zhonghui Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Educational Science, Anqing Normal University, Anqing, Anhui, China
² Centre for Mental Health Education, Anqing Vocational and Technical College, Anqing, Anhui, China

Corresponding Author

Zean Wu

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explore the relationship between parental emotional warmth and school adjustment of higher vocational students, as well as the chain-mediated roles of positive coping styles and psychological endurance. The study used the short-Egna Minnen av Barndoms Uppfostran Scale of Chinese Version(s-EMBU-C), the Simple Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ), the Psychological Endurance Scale, and the Brief College Student School Adjustment Scale to investigate 604 higher vocational students. The results showed that parental emotional warmth was significantly and positively correlated with school adjustment, positive coping styles, and psychological endurance (r=0.43,0.57,0.60,P<0.01); positive coping styles were significantly and positively correlated with psychological endurance and school adjustment (r=0.56, 0.51, P<0.01); and there was a significant and positive correlation between psychological endurance and school adjustment (r= 0.52,P<0.01); the mediation effect test shows that both positive coping style and psychological endurance play separate mediating roles between parental emotional warmth and school adjustment, with mediating effect values of 0.45 and 0.29 respectively, and also play chain mediating roles, with mediating effect value of 0.13. Finally, this paper concludes that parental emotional warmth not only affects school adjustment of higher vocational students directly but also indirectly affects school adjustment through the separate mediating role and chain mediating role of positive coping style and psychological endurance.

KEYWORDS

Parental emotional warmth; positive coping style; psychological endurance; school adjustment; higher vocational students

CITE THIS PAPER

Zean Wu, Zhiying Song, Shiliang He, Zhonghui Li, Parental Emotional Warmth and School Adjustment in Higher Vocational Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Positive Coping Styles and Psychological Endurance. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 72-80. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050711.

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