How parental educational anxiety fuels adolescent depression: the mediating chain of moral disengagement and negative coping, and the buffering role of psychological resilience

These findings highlight a complex chain of cognitive and emotional mechanisms linking parental educational anxiety to adolescent depressive symptoms. Moral disengagement and negative coping style operate as sequential mediators, while psychological resilience serves as a buffering factor. Although causal interpretations are limited by the cross-sectional design, the results underscore the importance of addressing both family-based pressures and adolescents' internal coping resources in interventions aimed at improving youth mental health in high-pressure educational contexts.