Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2022 Apr;50(3):1681-1699. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22748. Epub 2021 Nov 19.
This study aimed to test a longitudinal model of trust in adults and psychological well-being among Latinx adolescents, a population that has received little attention in the trust literature. The participants were urban, low-income Latinx (N = 294) students at two urban, Midwestern high schools who indicated they had at least one natural mentor in 9th grade. Participants completed surveys at two-time points, in 9th and 10th grade, and responded to measures of their feelings toward adults, quality of their natural mentoring relationships, self-esteem, intrinsic academic motivation, and coping self-efficacy. More trust in adults was indirectly, but not directly, associated with higher coping self-efficacy via higher mentoring relational quality and self-esteem. Positive expectations of adults may open Latinx youth to closeness in natural mentoring relationships and positive self-perceptions, which may, in turn, bolster coping ability.
本研究旨在检验信任与拉丁裔青少年心理幸福感之间的纵向模型，而拉丁裔青少年这一群体在信任研究中鲜有关注。参与者为城市、低收入的拉丁裔（N=294）学生，他们在两所城市、中西部的高中就读，在 9 年级时表示自己至少有一位自然导师。参与者在 9 年级和 10 年级完成了两次调查，回答了他们对成年人的感受、自然导师关系质量、自尊、内在学术动机和应对自我效能的问题。更多的对成年人的信任与更高的应对自我效能间接相关，而不是直接相关，其途径是更高的导师关系质量和自尊。对成年人的积极期望可能使拉丁裔青年更容易与自然导师关系亲密，并对自我有积极的认识，而这反过来又可能增强应对能力。
