The Influence of Parental Over-protection on the Mental Health of Secondary Vocational Students: A Conditional Process Model
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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the influence of parental over-protection on secondary vocational students' mental health, and to explore the mediating effect of psychological safety and the moderating effect of self-efficacy. Methods: The Parental Over-protection Scale, mental health scale, psychological safety scale and self-efficacy scale were used to measure 3160 subjects. Results: Parental over-protection had a significant negative impact on psychological safety (β=-0.17, P<0.001), psychological safety had a significant positive impact on mental health (β=0.23, P<0.001), and parental over-protection had a significant negative impact on mental health (β=-0.23, P<0.001) when excluding the influence of psychological safety. “Self-efficacy significantly positively moderated the latter half of the mediating pathway (β=0.11, P<0.001) and negatively moderated the direct impact of parental over-protection on mental health (β=-0.09, P<0.001), respectively.” The direct impact of parental over-protection on mental health. Conclusion: Parental over-protection negatively predicts mental health, psychological safety plays a partial mediating role in the influence of parental over-protection on mental health, and self-efficacy positively moderates the latter half of the mediating role and negatively moderates the direct role, respectively.
