Structural Equation Modeling of Relationships between Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Social Information Processing and Adolescent's Aggression

Structural Equation Modeling of Relationships between Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Social Information Processing and Adolescent's Aggression Present study investigated the mediating role of social information processing in the relationships between parental acceptance-rejection and adolescent's aggression.
Participants were 464 junior high schools in Qazvin city (233 girls and 231 boys) who were selected by multistage cluster sampling. To assessing research variables, Parental Acceptance – Rejection Questionnaire, child version (Rohner, 2005), Social Fiction (Tur-Kaspa & Brayan, 1994) and Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perri, 1992) were used. The data was analyzed by structural equation modeling applying AMOS
The result showed that final model has a good fitness. Also, findings of research hypothesis analysis showed that mother acceptance-rejection has been increased adolescent's aggression, by direct and indirect effects, (through decrease scores of social information processing, consist of recognize and interpretation, and decision making). Father acceptance-rejection didnt show any effect on research variables.
In general, results of present research provided evidences for mediating role of social information processing in the relationships between mother acceptance-rejection and adolescent's aggression