Abstract

Objectives This study analyzed whether the mediating effect of mental health and sense of community was sig-nificant in the relationship between parents-children interaction and peer attachment of mid. adolescents, and whether having the multiple mediating effects of parents-children interaction on peer attachment through mental health and sense of community.
 Methods For the purposes, 6,429 cases, taken from the 7th wave data(high school 2nd year) of KELS2013 were used. A survey of parents-children interaction, mental health, sense of community, and peer attachment was conducted. Bootstrapping analysis was performed using the SPSS Macro Process to examine the mediating effects.
 Results The direct effects of parents-children interaction, mental health, and sense of community on peer at-tachment were significant. The each mediating effect of mental health and sense of community was significant in the relationship between parents-children interaction and peer attachment. As s result of analyzing the multiple mediators of mental health and sense of community in the effect of parents-children interaction on peer attach-ment, a sequential multi-mediation functions appeared between the two variables.
 Conclusions Parents-children interaction influences mid. adolescents’s peer attachment formation through bol-stering mental health and sense of community. This implies that mental health counseling and sense of commun-ity training helps the formation of the mid. adolescents’s peer attachment.

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