A Model for the Effect of Parent-Child Conflicts and Main Family Function on Students' Aggression, Mediated by Perfectionism and Identity Styles

This study aimed to present a model for the effect of parent-child conflicts and main family function on aggression, mediated by perfectionism and identity styles, in students. The statistical population comprised senior high-school students in Kermanshah, Iran, in 2022-2023, of whom a sample of 384 was selected via random cluster sampling. The data collection instruments included standard questionnaires. Data was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings showed that parent-child conflicts and main family function directly, and indirectly through perfectionism and identity styles, affected the aggression of female senior high school students in Kermanshah. Therefore, it is possible to alleviate students' aggression by reducing parent-child conflicts, strengthening family functioning, boosting informational and normative identity styles, and correctly guiding perfectionism.