The Effect of Psychological Suzhi on Problem Behaviors in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Social Status and Self-esteem
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In this study, we examined subjective social status and self-esteem as potential mediators between the association of psychological suzhi and problem behaviors in a sample of 1271 Chinese adolescents (44.5% male, grades 7–12) . The results showed that subjective social status and self-esteem were found to fully mediate the relation between psychological suzhi and problem behaviors. Moreover, the indirect effect was stronger via self-esteem than via subjective social status. These findings perhaps provide insight into the preliminary effect that subjective social status and self-esteem underlie psychological suzhi’s effect on adolescents’ problem behaviors, and also were important in helping school-teachers and administrators to develop a better understanding of problem behaviors in their schools as a pre-requisite to the development of more effective behavior management practices from the perspective of psychological suzhi. Implications and limitations in the present study have also been discussed.
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Psychological suzhi positively predicts an individual's level of self-esteem.
“several studies have confirmed that psychological suzhi positively predicts an individual’s level of self-esteem, which includes personality characteristics [14,21,25].”
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The Discussion reports that psychological suzhi significantly positively predicted adolescents’ self-esteem. This supports the direction of the claim, but the paper’s finding is about adolescents rather than individuals generally. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Liu, G., Zhang, D., Pan, Y., Ma, Y., & Lu, X.
- Affiliations
- Southwest University (CN)
- Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Dajun
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2017-08-31
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 1490-1490
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5583222
- OpenAlex
- W2751418383
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 2.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- behavioral problems, subjective social status, self-esteem, mediation, Chinese adolescents, school behavior management
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