Bi Xinwen, Wang Shuqiong
School of Education, Shandong Women's University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2023 Aug 28;16:3385-3398. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S420962. eCollection 2023.
Family communication quality is an influential factor of career maturity; however, very few studies have investigated the internal mechanisms underlying the relation between family communication quality and career maturity. This study investigated the mediating effect of time perspective on this relation, explored adolescents' time perspective profiles, and examined the relationships among family communication quality, career maturity, and time perspective profiles.
In this one-year interval longitudinal study, adolescents (67.19% girls; aged 16.10-24.09 years; n = 442) reported parent-adolescent communication quality and time perspective at Time 1 and career maturity at Time 2.
The results showed that family communication quality positively predicted adolescents' career maturity, and this relation was mediated by adolescents' Present Fatalistic and Future time perspectives. Additionally, this study identified four time perspective profiles: balanced, moderate, negative, and risk-taking. We further examined how these time perspective profiles are associated with family communication quality and career maturity. The results showed that adolescents' perceptions of high-quality communication with their parents promoted them to endorse a balanced time perspective profile and protected them from endorsing a negative time perspective profile. Moreover, adolescents with a balanced time perspective profile exhibited better development in terms of career maturity, whereas those with a negative time perspective profile reported poor development in terms of career maturity.
Present Fatalistic and Future time perspectives mediated the association between parent-adolescent communication quality and career maturity. Additionally, adolescents who engaged in high-quality communication with parents were more likely to endorse the balanced time perspective profile and less likely to adopt the negative time perspective profile; these adolescents were also more likely to achieve higher levels of career maturity. These findings highlight the necessity of improving parent-adolescent communication quality and guiding adolescents to establish a balanced time perspective profile with the goal of promoting adolescents' career maturity.
家庭沟通质量是职业成熟度的一个影响因素；然而，很少有研究探讨家庭沟通质量与职业成熟度之间关系的内在机制。本研究考察了时间观在这种关系中的中介作用，探索了青少年的时间观概况，并检验了家庭沟通质量、职业成熟度和时间观概况之间的关系。
在这项为期一年的纵向研究中，青少年（67.19%为女孩；年龄在16.10 - 24.09岁之间；n = 442）在时间1报告亲子沟通质量和时间观，在时间2报告职业成熟度。
结果表明，家庭沟通质量正向预测青少年的职业成熟度，且这种关系由青少年的当下宿命主义和未来时间观介导。此外，本研究确定了四种时间观概况：平衡型、适度型、消极型和冒险型。我们进一步考察了这些时间观概况如何与家庭沟通质量和职业成熟度相关联。结果表明，青少年对与父母高质量沟通的感知促使他们认同平衡型时间观概况，并使他们不太可能认同消极型时间观概况。此外，具有平衡型时间观概况的青少年在职业成熟度方面表现出更好的发展，而具有消极型时间观概况的青少年在职业成熟度方面发展较差。
当下宿命主义和未来时间观介导了亲子沟通质量与职业成熟度之间的关联。此外，与父母进行高质量沟通的青少年更有可能认同平衡型时间观概况，而不太可能采用消极型时间观概况；这些青少年也更有可能实现更高水平的职业成熟度。这些发现凸显了提高亲子沟通质量以及引导青少年建立平衡型时间观概况以促进青少年职业成熟度的必要性。
