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Cumulative Ecological Risk and Adolescents’ Academic and Social Competence：The Compensatory and Moderating Effects of Sense of Responsibility to Parents

BAO Zhen-zhou1, LI Dong-ping2, ZHANG Wei1, WANG Yan-hui3, SUN Wen-qiang1, ZHAO Li-yan4   

  1. 1. School of Psychology/Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    2. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    3. School of Education Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou 514015;
    4. School of Education, Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences, Chengdu 610101
  • Online:2014-09-15 Published:2014-09-15

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Abstract: To investigate whether sense of responsibility to parents is a compensatory and a protective factor in the relations between cumulative ecological risk and adolescents' academic and social competence, a total of 613 adolescents (mean age=13.96 years; 372 girls) participated in this study. Multiple regression analyses showed that: (a) the cumulative ecological risk was negatively associated with academic competence and social competence in boys and girls. (b) Sense of responsibility to parents was positively related to girls' academic competence and boys' social competence, thus it was a compensatory factor in the relationship between cumulative ecological risk and adolescents' competence. (c) Sence of responsibility to parents buffered the negative effect of cumulative ecological risk on girls' academic competence; however, it enhanced the negative effect of cumulative ecological risk on girls' social competence. Thus, there was a cost of resilience. (d) The moderating effects of sense of responsibility to parents in the relations between cumulative ecological risk and boys' two domains of competence were not significant. In conclusion, there was a cost of resilience at least for some children, and we should not be over-optimistic about the resilience of adolescents experiencing severe adversity.

Key words: cumulative ecological risk, sense of responsibility to parents, academic competence, social competence, cost of resilience

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  • B844.2
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