Pathways to Adolescents' Flourishing: Linking Self-Control Skills and Positivity Ratio through Social Support

Autor/inn/en	Orkibi, Hod; Hamama, Liat; Gavriel-Fried, Belle; Ronen, Tammie
Titel	Pathways to Adolescents' Flourishing: Linking Self-Control Skills and Positivity Ratio through Social Support
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 50 (2018) 1, S.3-25 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X15581171
Schlagwörter	Emotional Response; Adolescents; Gender Differences; Self Control; Correlation; Social Support Groups; Parent Influence; Peer Influence; Prevention; Intervention; Prosocial Behavior; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Affective Behavior; Structural Equation Models; Multivariate Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Path Analysis; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionales Verhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Geschlechterkonflikt; Selbstbeherrschung; Korrelation; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Multivariate Analyse; Statistische Analyse; Pfadanalyse
Abstract	This study focused on the ability to experience a high ratio of positive to negative emotions in 807 Israeli adolescents aged 12 to 15 years (50% girls). While considering possible gender differences, we tested a model positing that adolescents' self-control skills would link to their positivity ratio and indirectly through perceived social support from parents and classmates. Parental support was significantly higher than classmate support, and girls scored significantly higher than boys on self-control skills and on both support sources. Self-control skills linked directly with positivity ratio and indirectly through parents' and classmates' support, with no gender differences found for the overall model. The study highlights the importance of prevention and treatment programs designed to impart adolescents with prosocial self-control skills, to improve their perceived availability of social support and consequently to increase their positivity ratio during this intense developmental period. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01