Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Parental autonomy support and future education planning among Chinese senior high school students: a chain mediation model integrating self-determination theory and social cognitive theory
Originally published 2026-01-08 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1646811 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How much of my teenager’s education plan reflects their own goals?
This article examines how parental autonomy support relates to high-school students’ education planning. The family question centres on who owns a decision and how a young person experiences adult support.
Who was studied?
Students from three senior high schools in Jinan, China, completing standardized measures.
Age / stage: Senior high school
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how parental autonomy support relates to high-school students’ education planning?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is students from three senior high schools in Jinan, China, completing standardized measures.
Keep the limits in view
The students came from three senior high schools in one city. Statistical mediation of survey measures does not establish the direction of causation.
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Guirong Liu; Mengyun Zhang; Xiaomei Zhang; Guizhou Yang; Feng Wang; Jinghuan Zhang; Xiuqin Teng; Yan Wang (2026). Parental autonomy support and future education planning among Chinese senior high school students: a chain mediation model integrating self-determination theory and social cognitive theory Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1646811
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