The Impact of Parental Behaviors on Adolescents’ Mental Health

Adolescent mental health problems have gradually become a frequent phenomenon, many of which include social pressure, academic pressure, and other dominant factors, including family pressure. However, Much of the existing research examines how social factors, like social media or social stress, affect the health of adolescents, while largely overlooking the role of parents in their family background. This report mainly discusses the influence of parents’ behavior on children’s mental health, mainly from the perspective of parents’ psychology and parenting practice. Parents’ own psychological pressure, which can easily lead to their pressure transfer, such as the pressure of parents’ caregivers can easily lead to the strengthening of parents’ control over their children and the increase of expectations. Parental conflict often increases depression and stress levels in adolescents. In addition, other studies have found some consistency between parental behavior and adolescent behavior, including Internet addiction, sexual cognitive impairment, and violent tendencies.