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

behaviors regarding their development, they tend to seek and comfortable campus environment. We believe that
challenges and set goals for themselves that go beyond the most of the improvement of adolescent mental resilience
minimal requirements from schools . They tend to have depends on a good living atmosphere.
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higher self-efficacy, which means that they are convinced Several limitations of this study warrant our attention.
of their abilities to cope with life challenges, and so First, this cross-sectional study cannot verify the temporal
[16]
demonstrate perseverance in the face of obstacles . relationship between parents’ satisfaction of home-school
Education anxiety partially mediated the relationship cooperation and the other three variables; therefore, the
between parents’ satisfaction and children’s mental causal relationship between parents’ satisfaction and
resilience, and significantly correlated with the two children’s mental resilience still awaits verification by
variables. The overlapping spheres of influence theory longitudinal studies in future. Second, the self-reported
suggest that children’s development is influenced by the questionnaire used in this study might be vulnerable to
interaction between family, schools, and communities . subjectivity, especially since the previous research found
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A high level of parents’ satisfaction could alleviate their that parents tend to exhibit positive response bias when
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education anxiety and promote harmony among the reporting their satisfaction of education services . The
family members, which is conducive to children’s mental participants in this study is of varying proportions in terms
resilience. In addition, this study found that education of gender, with 222 (66.3%) male and 113 (33.7%) females,
anxiety is related to rejection and overprotective parenting which might confound the results, because the previous
styles, which is not only detrimental to parent-child research found that fathers and mothers have different
interaction , but also damaging to the development of child-rearing beliefs, parenting styles and education anxiety
[44]
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psychological resilience of adolescents . level . Thirdly, the effect size of this study is relatively
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small (0.07, 0.07, and 0.02), which is partly affected by
Emotional warmth also partially mediated the the subjectivity of the subjects, and it also means that its
relationship between parents’ satisfaction and mental practical significance may be relatively small.
resilience, and significantly correlated with these two
variables. This indicates that consistent with the previous 5. Conclusion
research , higher parents’ satisfaction could induce their
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emotionally warm parenting style, which is conducive to This study proves that high parents’ satisfaction of home-
children’s mental resilience. Specifically, when the children school cooperation, low level of educational anxiety
perceive that they are connected to others and lovable, and emotional warmth of parenting style promote the
they tend to have higher self-esteem and self-worth, which improvement of adolescent psychological resilience.
help them bounce back from stress . The parents who Future work should focus on exploring the methods to
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are satisfied with home-school cooperation had fewer improve parents’ satisfaction in the process of home-school
complaints about it, a lower desire to control their children, cooperation and proposing specific measures according to
and more positive interactions with them, which benefits the actual situation, such as increasing the frequency of
the development of children’s mental resilience [34,48] . communication between teachers and parents.
Furthermore, both education anxiety and emotional Acknowledgments
warmth functioned as the chain mediators in the None.
relationship between parents’ satisfaction and children’s
emotional resilience. Based on the chain mediating model Funding
in this study, higher parents’ satisfaction would reduce
their education anxiety, give rise to an emotionally warm The study was supported by Hebei Province Social Science
parenting style, and further improve the children’s mental Fund (HB22JY030).
resilience. As such, based on the current situation that Conflict of interest
the mental resilience of Chinese teenagers is at a lower
level, this study provided empirical evidence supporting The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
the necessity of improving parents’ satisfaction of home-
school cooperation, reducing their education anxiety, Author contributions
and educating parents about developing and maintaining Conceptualization: Yudong Li
an emotionally warm autonomous parenting style. Investigation: Yuru Du, Tanyu Yang, Jiuying Liu, Shaoxiong,
Furthermore, this study also provides powerful measures Li, Jing Lv, Shining Chang, Yutao Yao
for parents and schools to improve students’ stress Methodology: Jianqiang Wang
resilience in the warm and harmonious family, and safe Formal analysis: Jianqiang Wang, Yiran Ge

Volume 1 Issue 2 (2023) 6 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcbp.1109