Orkibi Hod, Ronen Tammie
School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of HaifaHaifa, Israel.
Renata Adler Memorial Research Center for Child Welfare and Protection, Gershon Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel-Aviv UniversityTel-Aviv, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jun 7;8:936. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00936. eCollection 2017.
Although studies have shown that self-control skills (SCSs) are positively linked to both personal and interpersonal outcomes in adolescent students, studies on the putative mechanisms underlying this relationship are scarce. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory and previous studies, we theorized that the association between students' SCSs and their subjective well-being (SWB) in school may be mediated by students' perceived satisfaction of their basic psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy. The sample consisted of 1576 Israeli adolescent students (54% girls) in grades 10-12 (mean age 16) enrolled in 20 schools. A mediation model was tested with structural equation modeling and a robust bootstrap method for testing indirect effects, controlling for school-level variance. The findings supported the hypothesized model and a multi-group comparison analysis yielded gender invariance in the model. The findings suggest that both girls and boys with high SCSs may perceive themselves as having greater needs satisfaction in school and consequently higher school-related SWB. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
尽管研究表明，自我控制技能（SCSs）与青少年学生的个人和人际结果呈正相关，但关于这种关系背后潜在机制的研究却很少。借鉴自我决定理论和以往研究，我们推测，学生的自我控制技能与他们在学校的主观幸福感（SWB）之间的关联可能是由学生对自身能力、人际关系和自主性等基本心理需求的感知满足所介导的。样本包括20所学校的1576名以色列10至12年级的青少年学生（54%为女生），平均年龄16岁。使用结构方程模型和稳健的自助法来检验间接效应，并控制学校层面的差异，对中介模型进行了测试。研究结果支持了假设模型，多组比较分析得出该模型具有性别不变性。研究结果表明，自我控制技能高的女孩和男孩都可能认为自己在学校的需求得到了更大满足，从而在与学校相关的主观幸福感方面更高。文中还讨论了对政策和实践的启示。
