Influence of attachment security on Chinese rural adolescent’s
psychological well-being: Moderated mediation of self-efficacy and peer
isolation
- Hanlei DU,
- Jinghui HUANG,
- Steven,Sek-yum Ngai
Abstract
Previous research has examined the impact of family and school
separately on adolescents' psychological well-being. This study focuses
on the integrated role of family and school to observe their effects on
children's psychological well-being. Using a random sample of 1180
Chinese children from Grades 4 to 9, this study explores the
psychological well-being of rural Chinese children within this joint
family-school framework. The PROCESS macro is used to conduct the
moderation analysis. Results of this study show that attachment security
is significantly and directly related and indirectly associated with
adolescents' psychological well-being through the intermediary mechanism
of self-efficacy. Moreover, peer isolation moderates the relationship
between psychological well-being with attachment security and its
association with self-efficacy. This study contributes to confirming
self-efficacy and peer isolation's mediating and moderating role and
highlights the family-school as two synergistic links that influence
adolescents' psychological well-being.