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The Characteristics of Adolescents’ Parental Support and Their Effects on Their Social Adjustment:the Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence

ZHANG Wen-juan, ZOU Hong, LIANG Yu-ling   

  1. Institute of Development Psychology, Beijing Normal Unviersity, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2012-03-15 Published:2012-03-15

Abstract: The present study aimed at exploring the characteristics of adolescents'parental support;effects their its effect on their social adjustment,as well as the mediating effect of emotional intelligence.Parental Support Questionnaires,Adolescents'Social Adjustment Assessment Questionnaires and Adolescents'Emotional Intelligence Questionnaires were administered to the sample consicting of 2623 students(1246 boys and 1347 girls, aged from 11 to 18).The results showed that:(1)Significant differences of parental support were emerged in genders and grades.Girls perceived significantly higher parental support than boys,especially for affection and accompany support.Students in the second grade of senior high school reported significantly lower parental support than those in the first and second grade of junior middle school.(2)Simple correlation results indicated significant relationships among parental support,emotional intelligence and adolescents'social adjustment.(3)Canonical correlation suggested that the correlation between parental support and adolescents'social adjustment was moderate.Canonical variables explained 5.85% of the variance in parental support,28.5%in social adjustment, with the redundamay indexes as 1.23 and 5.99 respectively.(4)Emotional intelligence totally mediated the relationship between parental support and social adjustment.

Key words: parental support, social adjustment, emotional intelligence, adolescent

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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