ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Parent-child attachment and adolescent problematic behavior: the mediating effect of legal emotions.
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- Negative Legal Emotion and Prosocial Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model of Peer Attachment and Social Exclusion in a Chinese Undergraduate Sample.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Childhood emotional abuse and adolescent anxiety: a moderated mediation model of bullying victimization, perceived teacher legitimacy, and negative legal emotion.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Pathways to meaning: how family functioning shapes meaning in life through school belonging among Chinese adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The moderating role of legal emotions in the relationship between sensation seeking and risk-taking behaviors among college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- General attachment and behavioral problem among Chinese adolescents: a serial multiple mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of parent-child interaction and adolescent deviant behavior: the sequential mediation of depression and deviant peer affiliation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: In criminology, the close relationship between legal emotions and adolescent deviant behavior is well-documented. In psychology, parental attachment is strongly associated with children's problematic behavior; however, the role of legal emotions in this relationship remains underexamined. Methods: This study investigates the role of legal emotions in the relationship between adolescent parent-child attachment and problematic behavior. Adolescents completed self-report questionnaires. Results: Results revealed that both paternal and maternal attachment significantly negatively predicted adolescent problematic behavior, with paternal attachment explaining a larger proportion of the variance. Even after controlling for factors such as gender and grade level, parental attachment significantly negatively predicted adolescent problematic behavior. Legal emotions partially mediated the relationship between parental attachment and problematic behavior. Conclusion: These findings suggest that fostering positive parent-child relationships and enhancing adolescents' positive legal emotions may be effective strategies for reducing problematic behaviors among youth.
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