The complexity of the relationship between parental conflict and adolescent anxiety (analysis #20584)

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated challenges and stated research gap and future-work section and limitations section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 16 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Pengaruh Konflik Orang Tua terhadap Tingkat Kecemasan pada Remaja (2026) · Atmosfer Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Sastra Seni Budaya dan Sosial Humaniora · doi

  The complexity of the relationship between parental conflict and adolescent anxiety. The need to address parental conflict as a significant risk factor for adolescent mental health. The need to prioritize the quality of the parental relationship as a dominant proximal determinant of adolescent mental health.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: complexity relationship between parental conflict adolescent anxiety need
• Linking Parent-Adolescent Discrepancies in Perceived Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Problems to Adolescent Problematic Internet Use: A Longitudinal Study (2026) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi

  The relationship between parent-adolescent discrepancies in perceived emotional and behavioral difficulties and problematic Internet use is unclear. Prior work has not examined differences between mother-adolescent and father-adolescent dyads. There is a need to investigate the predictive relationship between parent-adolescent discrepancies and problematic Internet use.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: relationship between parent-adolescent discrepancies perceived emotional behavioral difficulties
• Examining the association of family environment and children emotional/behavioral difficulties in the relationship between parental anxiety and internet addiction in youth (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · cited 8× · doi

  integrate additional studies to provide targeted guidance aimed at improving family environments and addressing adolescent emotional and behavioral issues as well as internet addiction, - delve deeper into the anxiety levels of fathers to comprehensively understand the influence of both parents on adolescents' development, - employ an incremental prediction model to further explore the area of achievement in the family environment structure, - conduct longitudinal studies to further establish causality

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: integrate additional studies provide targeted guidance aimed improving
• Examining the association of family environment and children emotional/behavioral difficulties in the relationship between parental anxiety and internet addiction in youth (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · cited 8× · doi

  the proportion of mothers in the sample was higher than fathers, with a ratio of approximately 2:1, leading to an imbalance in parental representation, making it difficult to distinguish the effects of each parent on adolescents, - the cross-sectional design may not elucidate the causal relationship between parental anxiety and internet addiction and may lead to biased parameter estimates (93), - the generalizability of this study is limited as our sample primarily consists of adolescents from middle school, high school, and elementary school, and the data is from Jiangsu Province, China, - despite achievement having the highest coefficient in the family environment structure, we did not include it in the model when considering the variance of other family environment structures

  generallimitations sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: proportion mothers sample was higher fathers ratio approximately

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