Modelling the Causal Relationships between Perceived Parent-adolescent relationship quality Anger coping styles and Friendship quality among Secondary School Students

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1 Faculty of Graduate studies for education Cairo University

2 Faculty of Graduate Studies for Education . Cairo University

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The current study aims to use path analysis to verify the possibility of creating a hypothetical structural model that shows the causal relationships between the perceived quality of the parent-adolescent relationship (as an independent variable), anger coping styles (as a mediating variable), and friendship quality (as a dependent variable) among high school students. Additionally, it seeks to discover possibilities for predicting friendship quality based on the perceived quality of the parent-adolescent relationship, anger coping styles, and gender differences in study variables among sample members. The primary sample consisted of (249) high school students with an average age of (16.951) and a standard deviation of (1.623), and the study employed a descriptive methodology. Three measures—the friendship quality scale, the anger coping styles scale, and the perceived quality of the parent-adolescent relationship—were employed by the researchers. The findings showed that while maladaptive anger coping styles do not mediate the association between the quality of friendship and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship, adaptive anger coping styles do. According to the research findings, There were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and females in the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship, between the mean scores of males and females in anger coping styles (with the exception of the direct aggression style, in which the differences favored males), and also between the mean scores of males and females in friendship quality (with the exception of the conflict resolution dimension, where the differences favored females). The research recommends effective interventions aimed at improving the quality of the relationship between parents and adolescents and enhancing adolescents' coping styles for anger.

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  • Receive Date: 13 November 2024
  • Revise Date: 20 November 2024
  • Accept Date: 08 December 2024

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