Objective: This study examined the relationship between family conflict and adolescents’
mental health and the influence of social anxiety and rumination. Methods: 717 adolescents were
surveyed using the conflict subscale of the Family Environment Scale, the Adolescent Social
Anxiety Scale, the Rumination Response Scale and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.
Results: (1) There was a significant positive correlation among adolescents’ family conflict, social anxiety
and rumination, and adolescents’ mental health was significantly negatively correlated with family
conflict, social anxiety and rumination; (2) The results of the chain mediating effect show that the
family conflict of adolescents affects their mental health through social anxiety and rumination, and the
mediating effect value of “family conflict→social anxiety→mental health” is 0.073; the mediating effect
value of “family conflict→rumination→mental health” is 0.077; the mediating effect value of “family
conflict→social anxiety→rumination→mental health” is 0.047, and the above mediating effect values are
significant. Conclusion: State anxiety and rumination play a chain mediating role between family conflict
and adolescents’ mental health. Family conflict can not only directly affect adolescents’ mental health, but
also indirectly affect affect through social anxiety and rumination.