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Family Environment and High School Students' Development:Mediating Effect of Autonomy and its Gender Difference

WANG Fan, FANG Xiao-yi, HU Wei, CHEN Hai-de, WU Meng-xi, TANG Qin   

  1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2014-11-15 Published:2014-11-15

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Abstract: 348 high school students from three high schools in Zhejiang province were selected to fulfill the questionnaire online in group. Results were used to explore the effects and mechanism of family environment on high school students' development as well as the mediating effect of autonomy and its gender difference. Based on describing test,correlation analysis and structure equation models,results revealed as follow:(1) emotional autonomy of male students was significantly higher than that of female students,while perceived family intimacy was the opposite; (2) both family environment and autonomy were positively related to high school students' positive development,negatively related to negative development; high school students' positive development were negatively related to negative development; (3) family environment positively predicted high school students' positive development,negatively predicted negative development,and the former predictive effect was significantly higher than the latter one;(4) autonomy partially mediated the relationship between family environment and high school students' development; the mediating effect of autonomy between family environment and positive development were significant in both male and female group; as to negative development,the mediating effect is significant in male group while not sighificant in female group. The results provided initial statistics for promoting positive development of high school students as well as reducing the possibilities of negative development from family perspective.

Key words: High school students' development, Family environment, Autonomy, Gender difference

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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