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15-04-2024 | Empirical Research

Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Mobility Beliefs among Chinese Adolescents: The Protective Roles of Parental Academic Involvement and Adolescent Future Orientation

Auteurs: Shiyuan Xiang, Shan Zhao, Jiale Xiao, Yaqiong Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Zelin Liu, Danhua Lin

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Abstract

Social mobility beliefs play a significant role in shaping adolescents’ adaptive developmental outcomes, including well-being and academic functioning. Nevertheless, existing research may not cast light on the distinct trajectories and potential protective factors of social mobility beliefs. The present study aims to identify heterogeneity in trajectory patterns of social mobility beliefs among Chinese adolescents (M_age = 12.45, SD_age = 2.60; 55.1% boys; 40.0% rural adolescents) in a four-wave (i.e., fall 2017, fall 2018, spring 2019, and fall 2019) longitudinal design, and examines the protective roles of parental academic involvement and adolescent future orientation. Three distinct trajectories of social mobility beliefs were identified: high-increasing (35.1%; a positive trajectory with the best developmental outcomes, including the lowest problem behaviors and depression symptoms, and the highest life satisfaction and academic competence), moderate-stable (49.8%), and low-decreasing (15.1%; a negative trajectory with the worst developmental outcomes, including the highest problem behaviors and depression symptoms, and the lowest life satisfaction and academic competence). Apart from the main effects of parental academic involvement and future orientation, a significant interaction effect of these two protective factors and adolescent group was detected, and only rural adolescents who reported both high levels of parental academic involvement and future orientation have a greater chance of being placed in the high-increasing trajectory than the low-decreasing trajectory. These findings highlight the significance of clarifying individual differences in the dynamic process of social mobility beliefs during adolescence, and elucidate rural-urban disparities in the influences of protective factors on social mobility beliefs trajectories, and inform individualized intervention strategies.

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Life satisfaction was measured at Wave 2 as the earliest wave.

A quadratic (and a linear) model was examined, and could not fit the data for social mobility beliefs well.

Since both LCGA and growth mixture modeling (GMM) are widely used longitudinal mixture techniques, the current study did alternate model analyses by using GMM. However, these alternate model analyses failed to converge or did not yield appropriate solutions (more detailed information can be found on the supplemental materials).

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Titel: Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Mobility Beliefs among Chinese Adolescents: The Protective Roles of Parental Academic Involvement and Adolescent Future Orientation
Auteurs: Shiyuan Xiang
Shan Zhao
Jiale Xiao
Yaqiong Wang
Yuanyuan Li
Zelin Liu
Danhua Lin
Publicatiedatum: 15-04-2024
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01984-x

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