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10-05-2024 | Empirical Research

Profiles of Family and School Experiences and Adjustment of Adolescents During the Transition to High School

Auteurs: Juan Cao, Xiaodan Xu, Xu Liu, Zijiao Shen, Xuewei Fu, Xiaochen Man, Shan Zhao

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Abstract

Although family and school experiences play an important role in adolescents’ adjustment during the transition to high school, most prior studies investigated the effects of these experiences in isolation; their joint implications for both adolescents’ concurrent and long-term adjustment outcomes are less clear, and the potential role of individual characteristics within such associations remains understudied. Based on 525 10th graders (M_age = 15.48, SD_age = 0.71, 43.6% boys) who participated in a longitudinal study, the present research aimed to identify distinct family and school experience profiles among first-year high school students and examine their associations with adolescents’ internalizing problems and externalizing problems, both concurrently and 18 months later. Latent profile analysis revealed four distinctive profiles: thriving, low resources—moderate family risk, developmental stress—high parental conflicts, and developmental stress—high peer victimization profiles. The other three profiles (vs. the thriving profile) reported significantly higher levels of concurrent internalizing problems; while these differences diminished after 18 months. However, the enduring impacts of these profiles on internalizing problems persisted among adolescents with higher levels of environmental sensitivity. Additionally, adolescents characterized by two developmental stress profiles (vs. the thriving profile) exhibited significantly higher levels of externalizing problems both currently and longitudinally. Findings underscore the importance of identifying at-risk populations among adolescents during the transition to high school by including both family and school experiences when examining environmental influence on their adjustment, as well as the necessity to take individual environmental sensitivity into account when examining these associations.

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Titel: Profiles of Family and School Experiences and Adjustment of Adolescents During the Transition to High School
Auteurs: Juan Cao
Xiaodan Xu
Xu Liu
Zijiao Shen
Xuewei Fu
Xiaochen Man
Shan Zhao
Publicatiedatum: 10-05-2024
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01997-6

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