中国科学院心理健康重点实验室知识库

Parental organismic trust facilitates an autonomy-supportive parenting style whereas parental anxiety hinders it. However, few studies have explored the relationship among organismic trust, parental anxiety, and protective situational factors. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the main effect of organismic trust on parental anxiety and the moderating effect of adolescents' coping styles on the relationship between organismic trust and parental anxiety. Based on Trait Activation Theory, it was hypothesized that the effect of organismic trust on parental anxiety was dependent on contextual cues. This study adopted a quasi-experimental between-subject design to manipulate the moderator with four conditions (adolescents' coping styles: task-oriented coping, emotion-oriented coping, avoidance-oriented coping, and no coping). A total of 284 participants with at least one school child aged 12 similar to 18 were recruited for this study. Results of hierarchical linear regression revealed that the negative relationship between organismic trust and parental anxiety was stronger when parents perceived adolescents' using task-oriented coping than emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping. This study suggested that the programs aimed at adolescents and parents that combine adolescents' task-oriented coping with the enhancement of parental organismic trust may be more effective in alleviating parental anxiety.