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Problem Behaviors of Adolescents: The Role of Family Socioeconomic Status, Parental Educational Expectations, and Adolescents’ Confidence in the Future

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  • Yanwen Ouyang

    (School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
    Department of Management, Hunan Police Academy, Changsha 410138, China)

  • Daoqun Ding

    (School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China)

  • Xizheng Xu

    (Department of Management, Hunan Police Academy, Changsha 410138, China)

Abstract

The comprehensive theoretical model of problem behaviors proposes that family socioeconomic status is one of the factors affecting adolescent problem behaviors. The purpose of this study is to further explore the mechanism of the influence of family socioeconomic status on adolescent problem behaviors based on the framework of the comprehensive theoretical model of problem behaviors. Further, it is to discover more protective or risk factors affecting adolescent problem behaviors, so as to provide theoretical guidance for the prevention of and intervention in adolescent problem behaviors. This study used data from the 2014–2015 academic year of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) conducted by the China survey and data center at the Renmin University of China. A national representative sample of 6888 junior high school students was selected. Among them, 3342 (48.5%) were girls and 3546 (51.5%) were boys with an average age of 14.50 years (SD = 0.68 years). The results revealed that parental educational expectations and adolescents’ confidence in the future played a contributory mediating role in the association between family socioeconomic status and adolescents’ problem behaviors. Both parental educational expectations and adolescents’ confidence in the future are protective factors against adolescents’ problem behaviors and enhancing these factors can decrease the likelihood of adolescents’ engagement in problem behaviors.

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  • Yanwen Ouyang & Daoqun Ding & Xizheng Xu, 2022. "Problem Behaviors of Adolescents: The Role of Family Socioeconomic Status, Parental Educational Expectations, and Adolescents’ Confidence in the Future," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-11, November.
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    1. Wu, Lili & Zhang, Dajun & Cheng, Gang & Hu, Tianqiang & Rost, Detlef H., 2015. "Parental emotional warmth and psychological Suzhi as mediators between socioeconomic status and problem behaviours in Chinese children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 132-138.
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    2. Yanwen Ouyang & Xizheng Xu & Zirui Ouyang, 2023. "Confidence in the Future and Adolescent Problem Behavior," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-10, March.
    3. Yanwen Ouyang & Zirui Ouyang & Xizheng Xu, 2023. "Parental and Adolescent Educational Expectations and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: The Role of Deviant Peer Affiliations," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(3), pages 1-12, January.

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