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Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, China

ABSTRACT

Objective: The current study intended to investigate the relationships between the shyness level of late adolescence students, parenting style and parent-child attachment. Methods: Totally 705 senior high school students reported their shyness level, the parenting style of their parents, and their attachment with parents. Results: (1) Parents’ excessive protection and interference of parenting style and alienation dimension of parent-child attachment have a significant positive prediction on the shyness level of high school students; paternal emotional warmth has a significant negative prediction on students’ shyness level; and (2) The parent-child attachment showed partial mediating effect on the relationship between the parenting style and shyness level of late adolescence students. Conclusion: Parenting style not only can directly affect late adolescence students’ shyness, but also indirectly affect their shyness through parent-child attachment.

KEYWORDS

shyness, parenting style, parent-child attachment, late adolescence, mediating effect

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Chen YingMin, Liu XiaoRan, Yu LiNa, Wu YunPeng, & Han Xue. (2015). Parenting Style and Shyness of Late Adolescence Students in China: The Mediating Effect of Parent-Child Attachment. Psychology Research, 5(7), 404-412.

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