Perceived social support and life satisfaction among young Chinese adolescents: the mediating effect of psychological Su
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Perceived social support and life satisfaction among young Chinese adolescents: the mediating effect of psychological Suzhi and its components Hualing Miao 1,2 & Han Sun 1,2 & Xiaoyan He 3 & Zefeng Zhang 1,2 & Qian Nie 1,2 & Cheng Guo 1,2 Accepted: 14 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Psychological suzhi, as a set of comprehensive, integrated, and positive psychological qualities in Chinese culture, is a concept that has emerged in the field of Chinese quality-oriented education and that attempts to serve as a comprehensive overview of a given individual’s mental health. More recently, however, researchers have determined that while psychological suzhi is a significant predictor of psychological outcomes, its individual components (cognitive, individuality, and adaptability qualities) all have a distinct impact on these outcomes. The present study was therefore designed to assess whether psychological suzhi and/ or components thereof play a mediating role in the relationship between perceived social support (PSS) and life satisfaction among adolescents. In total, 2227 participants (Mage = 15.71 ± 0.82 years, 67.49% male) from western China were recruited for this study, and were assessed using adapted versions of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Brief Psychological Suzhi Questionnaire for Middle School Students. Our analyses ultimately revealed that there were significant positive correlations between PSS, psychological suzhi and components thereof, and life satisfaction. We additionally employed a structural equation modeling approach which indicated that overall psychological suzhi partially mediated the relationship between PSS and life satisfaction, whereas the cognitive, individuality, and adaptability components of suzhi did not mediate this same relationship. This suggests that psychological suzhi may be an important regulator of the relationship between PSS and life satisfaction such that educators and legal guardians may be able to improve the life satisfaction of adolescents either via offering social support or via bolstering their psychological suzhi. Keywords Perceived social support . Life satisfaction . Psychological suzhi . Mediation . Chinese adolescents
Introduction Life satisfaction is conceptualized as the outcome of an individual’s judgment regarding the extent to which their current life quality matches their self-imposed life standards, thus reflect in their overall self-evaluation of life quality (Diener et al. 1985). As a key construct associated with the positive mental
health of adolescents, life satisfaction is closely linked to a range of behavioral, psychological, social, and personal outcomes, such as mitigating the negative impacts of stress and reducing the incidence of externalizing behaviors or the internalization of problems (Suldo and Huebner 2004; Sun and Shek 2013). Wang and Yu (2017) reported that middle school students in Eastern China exhibited a cont
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