Ao Lu, Cheng Xuan, An Di, An Yuanyuan, Yuan Guangzhe
School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, PR China.
Department of Health Promotion Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Feb;54(2):510-521. doi: 10.1007/s10964-024-02083-7. Epub 2024 Sep 17.
Family resilience is crucial for individual's psychological health. Previous studies explored the protective factors of anxiety at the individual level, with less attention paid to the impact of family interaction from a dyadic perspective. This study utilized the Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model to investigate the relationship between family resilience, emotional flexibility, and anxiety symptoms. A sample of 2144 Chinese parent-adolescent dyads (36% upper grades of primary school, 64% secondary school, 49.39% girls; 70.38% mothers) was recruited. Perceived family resilience was inversely related to anxiety symptoms, directly or indirectly, through the mediation of emotional flexibility at the individual level. At the dyadic level, adolescents' perceived family resilience was significantly associated with parents' anxiety symptoms through their own or parents' emotional flexibility. Parents' perceived family resilience was inversely link to adolescents' anxiety symptoms through parents' emotional flexibility. Parents emotional flexibility also mediated the association between adolescents' perceived family resilience and their anxiety symptoms. These findings contribute to understanding the intricate dynamics of family resilience and psychological outcomes in parent-child relationships under adversity, emphasizing the need for child-centered interventions to improve family members' mental health.
家庭复原力对个体的心理健康至关重要。以往的研究在个体层面探讨了焦虑的保护因素，而从二元视角对家庭互动的影响关注较少。本研究采用行为者-伙伴相互依赖中介模型，考察家庭复原力、情绪灵活性与焦虑症状之间的关系。招募了2144对中国亲子二元组样本（小学高年级占36%，中学占64%；女孩占49.39%；母亲占70.38%）。个体层面上，感知到的家庭复原力通过情绪灵活性的中介直接或间接地与焦虑症状呈负相关。在二元层面上，青少年感知到的家庭复原力通过自身或父母的情绪灵活性与父母的焦虑症状显著相关。父母感知到的家庭复原力通过父母的情绪灵活性与青少年的焦虑症状呈负相关。父母的情绪灵活性也中介了青少年感知到的家庭复原力与其焦虑症状之间的关联。这些发现有助于理解逆境下亲子关系中家庭复原力与心理结果的复杂动态，强调了以儿童为中心的干预措施对改善家庭成员心理健康的必要性。
