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Negative Parenting Style and Mate Preference in College Students: Mediating Eff ect of Filial Piety Belief

Jiaxing Chen, Kaiting Zhang, Wentong Lin, Xiayan Li

Abstract


Family factors have a significant impact on the formation of mate preferences among college students, and it is not yet clear. Therefore, this article constructs an intermediary model and conducts a questionnaire survey on Chinese college students.The result show that negative parenting style affects mate preference, and some of the effects are mediated by filial piety belief. The results of the study are helpful to reveal the mediating mechanism between negative parenting and mate preference, which is of great significance for college students to establish the concept of mate choice.

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Negative parenting style; Mate preference; Filial piety belief; College students

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i16.8952

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