Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the parallel dual mediation effect of academic engagement and cooperation on the correlation between negative parental attitudes and adolescents' friend relationships.
 Methods This study used 4th wave data (7th graders) of the Korea Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018 (KCYPS 2018). The parallel dual mediation effect analysis were performed through Model no. 4 of SPSS 25.0 and SPSS PROCESS macro 4.2.
 Results First, adolescents’ academic engagement, cooperation and friend relationships showed negative correlations with negative parental attitudes. However, adolescents’ academic engagement, cooperation, and friend relationships showed a positive correlation with each other. Second, The effect of negative parental attitudes on adolescents' friend relationships was verified to have a significant mediation effect on academic engagement and cooperation, respectively. On the other hand, in the size of the indirect effect between the mediation variables, cooperation was higher than academic engagement. This means that the negative parental attitudes not only directly affect adolescents’ friend relationship, but also indirectly affect adolescents’ friend relationship through academic engagement. In particular, cooperation has a key impact in the process of leading to adolescents’ friend relationship.
 Conclusions This study presented the basis that academic engagement and cooperation have an important influence on the impact of negative parental attitude on adolescents' friend relationships. It provides basic data for parent education and youth counseling programs that help teenagers promote their friend relationship.

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