Expected Future Subjective Social Status Moderates the Relations between Perceived Parental Expectation and Persistence among Chinese Rural Adolescents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. The Relations between Perceived Parental Expectation and Adolescent Persistence
1.2. Potential Moderating Role of Expected Future Subjective Social Status
1.3. The Current Study
- (1)
- Research question 1: Are perceived parental expectations significantly correlated with persistence among Chinese rural adolescents?
- (2)
- Research question 2: Whether expected future SSS significantly moderates the link between perceived parental expectation and rural adolescents’ persistence?
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Measures
2.3.1. Perceived Parental Expectation
2.3.2. Future Subjective Social Status (SSS)
2.3.3. Persistence
2.4. Data Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics and Correlations between the Main Variables
3.2. The Moderating Effects of Expected Future SSS
4. Discussion
5. Limitations, Future Research and Educational Implications
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Score | Range | M | SD | Shapiro–Wilk | |
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Value | p | |||||
Perceived parental expectation | continuous | 1~6 | 4.52 | 1.01 | 0.972 | <0.001 |
Persistence | continuous | 1~5 | 2.74 | 0.97 | 0.971 | <0.001 |
Expected future SSS | continuous | 1~10 | 7.34 | 1.92 | 0.933 | <0.001 |
Gender | dummy | — | 0.45 | 0.50 | — | — |
Age | continuous | 12~15 | 13.32 | 0.72 | — | — |
Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. perceived parental expectation | — | |||
2. persistence | 0.01 | — | ||
3. expected future subjective social status | 0.05 | 0.25 *** | — | |
4. gender | −0.10 ** | −0.21 *** | −0.05 | — |
5. age | −0.03 | −0.04 | 0.04 | −0.09 * |
Predictors | β | SE | 95% CI |
---|---|---|---|
perceived parental expectation | −0.02 | 0.04 | [−0.13, 0.08] |
expected future SSS | 0.24 *** | 0.04 | [0.14, 0.35] |
perceived parental expectation × expected SSS | 0.10 * | 0.04 | [0.02, 0.18] |
gender | −0.19 *** | 0.04 | [−0.26, −0.11] |
age | −0.08 * | 0.03 | [−0.14, −0.01] |
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Zhang, F.; Yang, R.; Xu, X. Expected Future Subjective Social Status Moderates the Relations between Perceived Parental Expectation and Persistence among Chinese Rural Adolescents. Behav. Sci. 2024, 14, 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14080722
Zhang F, Yang R, Xu X. Expected Future Subjective Social Status Moderates the Relations between Perceived Parental Expectation and Persistence among Chinese Rural Adolescents. Behavioral Sciences. 2024; 14(8):722. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14080722
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Feng, Rui Yang, and Xiaodan Xu. 2024. "Expected Future Subjective Social Status Moderates the Relations between Perceived Parental Expectation and Persistence among Chinese Rural Adolescents" Behavioral Sciences 14, no. 8: 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14080722