The Relationship between Parent-child Relationship and Interpersonal Association Efficacy in College Students: The Mediating Role of Self-differentiation
A total of 1389 college students from two undergraduate schools in Guangdong wereselected to fill three questionnaires of parent-child relationship, self- differentiation and interpersonalassociation efficacy to explore the relationship between parent-child relationship, self-differentiationand interpersonal communication efficacy in college students. The result displayed that Parent-childrelationship can significantly and positively predict self-differentiation and interpersonal communicationefficacy and the positive predict effect of parent-child relationship on interpersonal association efficacywas declined when self-differentiation was included. The result suggested that self-differentiation playsa part of the mediating role in the relationship between parent-child relationship and interpersonalassociation efficacy and parent-child relationship can indirectly affect college students’ interpersonalassociation efficacy through self-differentiation.