Bingbing Lyu, Juntao Chen
Against the backdrop of a continuing rise in social anxiety among adolescents, this study examines how parental psychological control influences adolescents' socioemotional adjustment through internal psychological mechanisms. Grounded in self-determination theory, the study integrates parental psychological control, self-identity, and psychological resilience into a single sequential mediation model, addressing the limited attention to self-development pathways in prior research. Using convenience sampling, questionnaire data were collected from 795 middle school students in China. All variables were measured with well-validated localized scales. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0, and the mediation effects were tested with the bootstrap method (5000 resamples). The results show that self-identity and psychological resilience jointly serve as significant sequential mediators between parental psychological control and adolescents' social anxiety, suggesting that the influence of family context on adolescents' socioemotional outcomes is transmitted progressively through self-development and adaptive resources. The findings extend the application of self-determination theory to family parenting and adolescent psychological adjustment, and offer practical insights for reducing social anxiety and fostering positive psychological resources among adolescents.