Parental psychological control and depressive symptomatology in Chinese junior middle school students

Parental psychological control indirectly affects depressive symptomatology through psychological resilience, with school climate moderating the mediating effect. The findings show how family and school environments, along with individual traits, collectively influence adolescents' depressive symptomatology. The study has the following application implications. Interventions such as the resilience-building program and the mindfulness program could improve parents' educational styles and students' psychological resilience respectively. Educators can strengthen school climate through learning guidance and game activities and so on. Courses such as teacher training should incorporate methods of family-school collaboration. Further longitudinal studies could explore the development of the relationships between the main variables. Objective measurements could also be incorporated for more accurate measurement

Cognition · Control (management · Depressive symptoms · Developmental psychology · Mediation · Moderated mediation · Psychiatry · Psychological control · Psychological research · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Family Support in Illness · Psychology · Social Psychology

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