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Parental Involvement and Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Mediating Roles of the Sense of Security and Autonomous Motivation in Chinese Primary School Students

Authors :
Xiaoxian Liu
Hengyuan Fan
Xinya Shang
Wange Li
Xinhui He
Purui Cao
Xiaosheng Ding
Source :
Behavioral Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 7, p 603 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2024.

Abstract

Parental involvement may influence the subjective well-being of primary school students, but the specific mechanisms remain unclear. This study explores the mechanisms between parental involvement and primary school students’ subjective well-being. The current study investigated 340 fifth and sixth grade students and their parents from a primary school using the Parental Education Involvement Behavior Scale, the Well-Being Scale, the Sense of Security Scale, and the Learning Self-Regulation Scale. We found that (1) sense of security plays a complete mediating role between parental involvement and primary school students’ subjective well-being; (2) autonomous motivation has a marginal mediating effect between parental involvement and subjective well-being of primary school students; and (3) sense of security and autonomous motivation play a chain mediating role between parents’ educational involvement and primary school students’ well-being. In conclusion, parental involvement appears to contribute to primary school children’s subjective well-being, and this effect may be mediated individually and sequentially by the children’s sense of security and autonomous motivation.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2076328X
Volume :
14
Issue :
7
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Behavioral Sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.00218eaa574dee8a76995694788b8e
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14070603