Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau.
Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau.
J Adolesc. 2018 Dec;69:189-202. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.07.019. Epub 2018 Nov 1.
This longitudinal study investigated whether and how parental conflicts contributed to adolescents' endorsement of materialistic values.
Two hundred and fourteen Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong (102 boys; mean age = 16.52 years) completed a set of questionnaires including materialism, emotional insecurity, parental conflict behaviour, and perceptions of parents (warmth, autonomy, and involvement).
Consistent with the psychological insecurity hypothesis and the emotional security theory, emotional insecurity mediated the connection between parental conflict behaviour and adolescents' materialism. Adolescents who had their parents dealing with their conflicts in destructive ways reported higher levels of emotional insecurity, which was in turn associated with higher levels of materialism. By contrast, adolescents who had their parents dealing with their conflicts constructively reported lower levels of emotional insecurity, which was linked to lower levels of materialism.
Parental conflict behaviour contributes to adolescents' materialism through its influence on emotional insecurity.
本纵向研究旨在探讨父母冲突是否以及如何导致青少年认同物质主义价值观。
香港的 214 名青少年(102 名男生;平均年龄 16.52 岁)完成了一套问卷,包括物质主义、情感不安全感、父母冲突行为以及对父母(温暖、自主和投入)的看法。
与心理不安全感假设和情感安全理论一致,情感不安全感在父母冲突行为与青少年物质主义之间起中介作用。父母以破坏性方式处理冲突的青少年报告的情感不安全感水平更高,而这种情感不安全感又与更高水平的物质主义有关。相比之下,父母以建设性方式处理冲突的青少年报告的情感不安全感水平较低,这与较低水平的物质主义有关。
父母冲突行为通过对情感不安全感的影响,导致青少年的物质主义。