父母支持与服刑青少年生活目的感的关系:自尊的中介作用

Parental Support and Purpose in Life among Juvenile Offenders: the Mediating Effect of Self-Esteem

采用父母支持、自尊和生活目的感量表对444名服刑青少年进行测评,探讨父亲支持、母亲支持对服刑青少年生活目的感的预测作用,并检验自尊在其中的中介作用。结果表明:(1)父亲支持、母亲支持能够显著正向地预测服刑青少年的生活目的感;(2)自尊水平越高,服刑青少年的生活目的感越高;(3)自尊在父亲支持与服刑青少年生活目的感之间起完全中介作用,自尊在母亲支持与服刑青少年生活目的感之间则不存在中介作用。这表明,父亲支持、母亲支持均为服刑青少年发展生活目的感的重要资源,但是对青少年生活目的感的作用机制存在差异。

This study, by using the Parental Support Scale, the Sell-esteem Scale and the Purpose in Life Scale to survey 444 juvenile offenders, aims to explore the predictive effect of parental support on juvenile offend- ers＇ purpose in life, and the mediating effect of sell-esteem between,parental support and juvenile offenders＇ pur- pose in life. The results show the following： （1） Paternal support and maternal support could both help signifi- cantly positively predict juvenile offenders＇ purpose in life; （2） sell-esteem could help positively predict juvenile offenders＇ purpose in life; and （3） self-esteem fully mediated between paternal support and juvenile offenders＇ purpose in life, but sell-esteem did not mediate between maternal support and juvenile offenders＇ purpose in life. These findings suggest that parental support and maternal support are both important resources to enhance juvenile offenders＇ purpose in life, but they function in different ways.