父母支持与服刑青少年的情绪适应:公正世界信念的中介作用

以446名服刑青少年为被试,采用问卷法,探讨了青少年服刑后的父母支持、公正世界信念与其情绪适应的关系及作用机制。结果表明:(1)服刑青少年的情绪适应状况较差,抑郁水平较高,生活满意度较低;(2)服刑后的父母支持和公正世界信念显著负向地预测青少年的抑郁,显著正向地预测其生活满意度;(3)公正世界信念在父母支持和抑郁、生活满意度之间均起着部分中介作用。这表明,服刑后青少年的父母支持既可以直接促进其服刑期间的情绪适应,又可以通过提升其公正世界信念来促进其服刑期间的情绪适应。

Parent Supporting and Emotional Adaptation of Juvenile Offenders:Mediating Effect of Belief in a Just World

In order to explore how parental support, belief in a just world impact juvenile offenders' emotional adaption, a sample of 446 male juvenile offenders completed the Parental Supporting Scale, Belief in a Just World Scale, Life Satisfaction Scale, Self-rating Depression Scale. Results indicated that:(1)Juvenile offenders had relatively poorer condition of emotional adaptation, higher level of depression, and lower level of life satisfaction.(2)For juvenile offenders, parental support and belief in a just world all predicated increased life satisfaction, declined depression.(3) Belief in a just world exerted partial mediating effect on the relations between parental support and depression, parental support and life satisfaction. Overall, the present study showed that juvenile offenders' parental support not only had a direct effect on emotional adaption, but also had an indirect effect on emotional adaption through belief in a just world.