Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 352-360.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.03.13

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The Relationship among Decision-making Autonomy, Parent-Adolescent Cohesion, and Subjective Well-being: A Comparative Study Between Left-behind Adolescents and Non-left-behind Adolescents

ZHAO Jingxin1, WANG Qiujin1, YANG Ping1, LIU Xia2   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2017-05-15 Published:2017-05-15

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Abstract: A total of 374 rural adolescents were recruited from a rural area in Shandong province of China, including 161 adolescents from two-parent-migrant families and 213 adolescents from nonmigrant families. These adolescents completed a self-report assessment on investigating relations between decision-making autonomy, parent-adolescent cohesion, and adolescents' subjective well-being. Parent-adolescent cohesion and gender were examined as moderators. The results indicated that decision-making autonomy was positively associated with adolescents' life satisfaction. Father-adolescent cohesion and mother-adolescent cohesion predicted higher levels of adolescents' subjective well-being. Moreover, decision-making autonomy predicted positive emotion and life satisfaction only among boys from nonmigrant families and mother-adolescent cohesion predicted negative emotion only among girls from nonmigrant families. In addition, mother-adolescent cohesion moderated the association between decision-making autonomy and life satisfaction among adolescents from nonmigrant families. Specifically, decision-making autonomy was positively associated with adolescents' life satisfaction at lower levels of mother-adolescent cohesion, but such association was not significant at higher levels of mother-adolescent cohesion.

Key words: left-behind adolescents, decision-making autonomy, parent-adolescent cohesion, subjective well-being

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  • B844

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