Liu Yafei, Di Siyu, Shi Yaohui, Ma Chao
Normal College, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
Center of Application of Psychological Research, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Dec 23;13:1087668. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1087668. eCollection 2022.
The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between meaning in life and adolescent self-control, as well as the role of perceived social support and gender in this pathway.
For this purpose, a total of 936 adolescents from two high schools were selected as subjects in this study. The Meaning in Life Scale, the Self-Control Scale, and the Perceived Social Support Scale were used for the research.
The results obtained in this study have shown that meaning in life is a significant positive predictor of adolescent self-control and perceived social support. In addition, perceived social support partially mediates the relationship between meaning in life and self-control. Further, it has been found that gender moderates the second half of the pathway of the mediation model of meaning in life on self-control, specifically, perceived social support is a stronger predictor of self-control for females than for males.
The results of this study suggest that enhancing perceived social support promotes self-control in adolescents with lower meaning in life, and this process is more pronounced in females.
本研究旨在探讨生活意义与青少年自我控制之间的关系，以及感知社会支持和性别在这一关系路径中的作用。
为此，本研究选取了两所高中的936名青少年作为研究对象。采用生活意义量表、自我控制量表和感知社会支持量表进行研究。
本研究结果表明，生活意义是青少年自我控制和感知社会支持的显著正向预测因子。此外，感知社会支持在生活意义与自我控制之间的关系中起部分中介作用。进一步研究发现，性别调节了生活意义对自我控制的中介模型路径的后半段，具体而言，感知社会支持对女性自我控制的预测作用比对男性更强。
本研究结果表明，增强感知社会支持可促进生活意义较低的青少年的自我控制，且这一过程在女性中更为明显。
