Abstract

Objectives This study set up and verified a structural model to verify the multiple mediating effect of academic grit and positive psychological capital in the relationship between parental bonding patterns and academic ach-ievement of college students.
 Methods A survey was conducted on 350 4-year university students located in J-province. Parental bonding pat-terns, which are antecedent variables, were divided into parental care and parental overprotection. A research model was established with parental care and parental overprotection as the antecedent variables, academic grit and positive psychological capital as the mediating variables, and academic achievement as the dependent variable. Correlation analysis and structural equation model(SEM) verification were performed on the collected da-ta, and a phantom model was constructed and the bootstrapping method was used to verify the multiple media-ting effect.
 Results First, 6 out of 9 pathways in the research model (parental care→academic grit, parental care→positive psychological capital, parental overprotection→positive psychological capital, academic grit→positive psycho-logical capital, academic grit→academic achievement, positive Psychological capital → Academic achievement) was found to be significant. Second, as a result of structural equation model (SEM) verification of the modified model excluding three paths that were not statistically significant, it was found to show a very good fit. Third, as a result of constructing a phantom model and verifying the multiple mediating effect, the multiple mediating effect of academic grit and positive psychological capital was significant in the relationship between parental care and academic achievement. And positive psychological capital was found to act as a complete parameter in the rela-tionship between parental overprotection and academic achievement. 
 Conclusions The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to understand the psychological mechanism that the parental bonding patterns of college students affects academic achievement, and based on this, educational guidance and intervention are needed to enhance academic grit and positive psychological capital.

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