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Vol.21, No.1, 2025, BECE 2007 

 

 

 

 

Parent-Child Interaction, Parental Academic Support, 

and Juvenile Deviance: An Empirical Analysis Based 

on Data from the China Education Panel Survey 

By Dou, Y., Zhang, H., & Zhang, M. 
Correspondence to: Meng Zhang, People’s Public Security University of China, 

China. E-mail: editorial-office@bonoi.org 

HE HOME is the first social setting for a child. Recent years have seen 

extensive research on the relationship between family influences and 

child deviant behavior. Nevertheless, how the two proximal family factors, 

parent-child interaction and parental academic support, influence juvenile 

deviance remains unclear. Using panel data from the China Education Panel 

Survey (CEPS) 2014–2015, this study seeks to explore the specific mecha-

nisms by which parent-child interaction and parental academic support influ-

ence juvenile deviance. 

Research Findings: 

• Positive parent-child interaction means increased parental care 

and strengthened family emotional bonds, which help alleviate 

negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, and stress in mi-

nors. This, in turn, can encourage them to focus more on legiti-

mate activities and largely diminish the need for seeking emo-

tional support and satisfaction from delinquent peers, thereby re-

ducing the opportunities of engaging in deviant activity. However, 

the frequency of parent-child interaction is not directly linked to 

the minor’s deviant behavior; rather, it is their emotional state that 

matters the most in the regulation of their acts.  

• The increase in parental academic support can result in enhanced 

awareness of prime objectives in the schooling stage in minors, 

and consequently, they will become more devoted to legitimate 

activities, such as learning, academic life planning, voluntary ef-

forts, and more. On the other hand, excessive emphasis on 

schoolwork from parents may bring unnecessary mental pressures 

to minors, resulting in unwanted consequences.  

• Concentration willingness, deriving from the individual’s desire 

for social recognition of their success, plays a significant role in 

preventing their engagement with deviant peers and their own de-

viant behavior. 

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• Minors’ deviant behavior is the result of multiple factors, among 

which, peer deviance is the most pronounced one. 

Suggestions: 

• In home lives, it is important for parents to help their children 

develop knowledge of personal emotions and act as role 

models in emotional regulation. It is their responsibility to aid 

the latter in combating negative emotions. 

• Parents should adopt a balanced approach to academic sup-

port for children and be mindful of the harms of the “tiger-

mom” style of home education. 

• In providing academic support to their children, parents 

should focus on cultivate their concentration willingness, en-

couraging in them the heartfelt pursuit of meaningful life 

goals. 

• Communities, schools, and families should collaborate to 

create a healthy peer interaction environment for minors and 

do everything possible to halt their communication with de-

linquent peers. 

 
Source: Journal of Shanghai Educational Research, 2025; 2025(04):44-51. 


