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Journal of Clinical and
Basic Psychosomatics Satisfaction of home-school cooperation

among the adolescents . Coupled with the impacts of part, to the development of students’ behaviors ; therefore,
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[1]
COVID-19 pandemic such as reduced social interactions the parents who are satisfied with home-school cooperation
with peers and decreased physical activity, mental health tend to involve more and actively build relationships with
issues among the adolescents have become particularly teachers, thereby achieving better outcome. In support of
prominent in China . For example, a study conducted in this, Hampden-Thompson and Galindo conducted a study
[2]
2020 showed that the prevalence of adolescents’ depression in 2017 about home-school cooperation among 10,000
and anxiety was 43.7% and 37.4%, respectively . This British secondary school students, and they found that
[3]
[4]
also has inevitably induced anxiety among parents . In parents’ satisfaction strongly mediated the teacher-parent
response, the Chinese government has engaged in guiding relationship and academic achievement . As such, this
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the development and reforms of the education system. For study aims to examine whether higher parents’ satisfaction
example, the General Office of the Chinese Communist of home-school cooperation is associated with higher
Party Central Committee and the General Office of the mental resilience, which is regarded as another potential
State Council issued the “Opinions on Further Reducing outcome of home-school cooperation.
the Homework and Extracurricular Training Burden of
Students in Compulsory Education” (i.e., the “Double The exact mechanism underlying the association
Reduction” policy) on July 24, 2021. This policy emphasizes between parents’ satisfaction of home-school cooperation
constructing a sound educational ecosystem, reducing and adolescent mental resilience remains unknown. One
parents’ anxiety, and fostering both the physical and candidate pathway is that higher satisfaction leads to the
mental health of primary and secondary school students. lower parents’ education anxiety, which gives rise to a warm
Furthermore, on April 20, 2023, the Ministry of Education, and authoritative parenting style that is a key contributor
together with 17 other departments, jointly issued the to high mental resilience. Education anxiety refers to the
“Special Action Plan for Comprehensive Strengthening anxiety and tension experienced by parents concerning
and Improvement of Student Mental Health in the New their high expectations towards their children’s education,
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Era (2023–2025).” This plan attaches great importance to academic outcomes and learning environment . Suffering
the cooperation between schools and families to promote from education anxiety is a prevalent phenomenon among
adolescents’ mental health. parents in China, where parents tend to set high expectations
toward their children’s education, since, influenced by the
One of the most important indices of mental health is Confucian culture, they strongly believe that education can
mental resilience, which refers to the behavioral tendencies change one’s destiny . A study conducted in 2018 showed
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to adapt to the consistently changing environment and the that 68% of 3205 families in China felt anxious about their
ability to recover from stress [5,6] . Studies have shown that children’s education. Parents’ higher anxiety might be
positive parenting styles, safe school climates, and low levels transmitted to children through interactions, and they may
of educational anxiety are conducive to adolescent mental engage in improper education behaviors . For example,
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resilience [7-9] . High mental resilience could aid adolescents the previous studies suggested that parents with the higher
in adapting to the school environment and handling both education anxiety were less warm and supportive, and tend
academic and interpersonal pressures . According to to criticize their children for having bad scores and give
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Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system theory, the family, as their children more homework, and also restrict them from
the primary environment in which students interact with joining extracurricular activities . These characteristics
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others, exerts significant impacts on individuals’ mental align more with the authoritarian parenting style rather
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development . In line with this theory, the practice of than the authoritative parenting style .
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home-school cooperation aims to offer a better family
atmosphere for adolescents’ mental growth . In practice, Parenting style is the integration of parents’ attitudes,
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the schools are required to regularly communicate with beliefs and behaviors towards their children, which reflects
parents through workshops, teacher-parent meetings the nature of the parent-child relationship [25,26] . Two main
or social media, comprehend the learning environment dimensions – emotional warmth (EW) and control – have
within the students’ families, and discuss with parents been identified to distinguish four types of parenting style:
on how to improve their education practices [13-15] . The authoritative (higher EW and higher control), permissive
previous studies provided evidence that both the teacher- (higher EW and lower control), authoritarian (lower EW
parent relationship and the degree of parental involvement and higher control), and neglectful (lower EW and lower
in home-school cooperation crucially determine its control) . Numerous researchers found that higher
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success [16,17] , which entails parents’ positive attitudes toward mental resilience is associated with an authoritative
home-school cooperation. According to the theory of parenting style and lower mental resilience is associated
planned behavior, parents’ attitudes contribute, at least in with an authoritarian and permissive parenting style [28-31] .

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