Yeung Jerf W K
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 20;18(8):4357. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084357.
Development of psychosocial maturity has profound implications for youths' well-being and positive development in the long run. Nevertheless, little research has investigated the way family socialization contributes to youths' psychosocial maturity. Both the concepts of family socialization and psychosocial maturity are multifaceted and latent, which may lead to biased results if studied by manifest variables. Also, no existing research has discovered how different family socialization components interact latently to contribute to youths' psychosocial maturity. The current study, based on a sample of 533 Chinese parent-youth dyads, examined the effects of family socialization by positive family processes and authoritative parenting, and their latent interaction in an integrated moderation and mediation modeling framework on Chinese youths' psychosocial maturity. Results showed that both positive family processes and authoritative parenting, and their latent interaction significantly predicted the higher psychosocial maturity of Chinese youths. Authoritative parenting acted as a mediator for the relationship between positive family processes and Chinese youths' psychosocial maturity. Furthermore, the mediating effect of authoritative parenting was conditioned by different contexts of positive family processes, the strongest and least strong effects found in high and low positive family processes, respectively, and moderate effect observed in medium positive family processes. Findings of the current study contribute to our understanding of the complicated family mechanism in relation to youth development, especially in this digital era.
从长远来看，心理社会成熟度的发展对青少年的幸福感和积极发展具有深远影响。然而，很少有研究探讨家庭社会化对青少年心理社会成熟度的作用方式。家庭社会化和心理社会成熟度的概念都是多方面且潜在的，如果通过显性变量进行研究，可能会导致有偏差的结果。此外，现有的研究尚未发现不同的家庭社会化组成部分是如何潜在地相互作用以促进青少年的心理社会成熟度的。本研究以533对中国亲子二元组为样本，在一个综合的调节和中介建模框架中，考察了积极家庭过程和权威型教养方式的家庭社会化及其潜在相互作用对中国青少年心理社会成熟度的影响。结果表明，积极家庭过程、权威型教养方式及其潜在相互作用均显著预测了中国青少年较高的心理社会成熟度。权威型教养方式在积极家庭过程与中国青少年心理社会成熟度之间的关系中起中介作用。此外，权威型教养方式的中介作用受积极家庭过程不同背景的调节，在高积极家庭过程和低积极家庭过程中分别发现最强和最弱的效应，在中等积极家庭过程中观察到中等效应。本研究的结果有助于我们理解与青少年发展相关的复杂家庭机制，尤其是在这个数字时代。
