The Mediating Role of Self-mastery and the Regulating Effect of Friendship Quality between Strict Parental Discipline and the Problem Behavior of Junior High School Students in China

Family education and growing psychological problems in junior high school students have raised serious concerns recent years. This study investigated the relationship between strict parental discipline problem behavior students. 1,067 Junior were enrolled based on several variables –strict discipline, self-esteem level friendship quality –to examine their age group. Our found that: (1) could contribute to (2) Self-esteem plays an intermediary role students' behavior; parenting affects they, turn, develop problems. (3) Friendship a regulating effect of self-esteem.