Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parental Autonomy Support and Mental Health among Chinese Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem
Originally published 2022-10-28 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph192114029 ↗
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How might autonomy support relate to self-esteem as children move toward adulthood?
The paper examines autonomy support, self-esteem, and both positive and negative indicators of mental health. The separate age groups allow readers to distinguish adolescent findings from emerging-adult findings.
Who was studied?
Chinese school students and university-age emerging adults, analyzed as two independent samples.
Age / stage: 10–17 years and 17–26 years in separate samples
Read with three questions
- How did the adolescent and emerging-adult samples differ?
- Which mental-health outcomes and self-esteem associations were measured?
- Why does cross-sectional mediation not establish a treatment or prevention effect?
Keep the limits in view
Self-reported cross-sectional data cannot establish causation. Recruitment in northwestern China limits generalizability, and the adolescent and emerging-adult findings should not be merged into one age-specific claim.
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Chunhua Ma; Yongfeng Ma; Youpeng Wang (2022). Parental Autonomy Support and Mental Health among Chinese Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114029
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