Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
J Affect Disord. 2024 Jun 1;354:89-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.03.052. Epub 2024 Mar 11.
Previous studies have found that adolescents and their parents may hold discrepant views about educational aspirations. However, little is known about how these discrepancies affect adolescents' internalizing problems and the moderating effect of SES on the relation between (in)congruence of parent-child educational aspirations and adolescents' internalizing problems. Therefore, this study explored the relation between (in)congruence of parent-child educational aspirations and adolescents' internalizing problems, and further tested the moderating role of SES. Based on two-wave survey data collected from a nationally representative sample of 8194 parent-child dyads in China (51.3 % boys, mean age = 13.58 years), multilevel polynomial regression and response surface analysis were performed to investigate the hypotheses. The results found that (1) internalizing problems were minimal when the two educational aspiration variables were congruent, (2) internalizing problems were the highest when the discrepancy between child educational and parental educational aspirations was largest, and (3) SES moderated the relation between (in)congruence in educational aspirations and adolescents' internalizing problems. The study's results not only comprehensively and intuitively reveal the influence of parents' and children's educational aspirations on adolescents' internalizing problems, but also provide targeted guidance and suggestions regarding parenting practices for families from diverse SES backgrounds.
先前的研究发现，青少年及其父母可能对教育期望持有不同的看法。然而，对于这些差异如何影响青少年的内化问题，以及社会经济地位（SES）对亲子教育期望不一致与青少年内化问题之间关系的调节作用知之甚少。因此，本研究探讨了亲子教育期望不一致与青少年内化问题之间的关系，并进一步检验了 SES 的调节作用。本研究基于来自中国一个具有代表性的 8194 对亲子样本的两波调查数据（51.3%的男孩，平均年龄=13.58 岁），采用多层次多项式回归和响应面分析来检验假设。结果发现：（1）当两个教育期望变量一致时，内化问题最小；（2）当儿童教育期望与父母教育期望差异最大时，内化问题最高；（3）SES 调节了教育期望不一致与青少年内化问题之间的关系。本研究的结果不仅全面直观地揭示了父母和子女的教育期望对青少年内化问题的影响，还为不同 SES 背景的家庭提供了有针对性的育儿实践指导和建议。
