1. Psychological Well-Being Among Adolescents: The Role of Parenting Styles, Causal Attributions of Academic Success/Failure, and Perceived School Performance.
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Madalena, Alane Pereira, Loureto, Gleidson Diego Lopes, Santos, José Anderson Galdino, Santos, Layrtthon Carlos de Oliveira, Fortes, Gabriel, and Freires, Leogildo Alves
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MENTAL health ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,MULTIPLE regression analysis ,PARENTING ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,STRUCTURAL equation modeling ,CHI-squared test ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,SCHOOL failure ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,TEENAGERS' conduct of life ,ACADEMIC achievement ,ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology) ,PSYCHOLOGICAL tests ,FACTOR analysis ,WELL-being ,ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
We investigated the effects of perceived parenting styles, causal attributions for academic success/failure, and perceived school performance (PSP) on adolescents' psychological well-being (PWB). Participants were 200 Brazilian adolescents who answered the Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire, the Psychological Well-Being Scale, and the Rating Scale of Causal Attributions for Academic Success/Failure (RSCA). The results showed that adolescents' PWB was predicted by authoritative parenting style (APS), internal and controllable attributions (appropriate motivations to cope with academic success/failure; ICASF), and PSP. In addition, we tested a mediation model showing that the ICASF mediated the relationship between APS and PSP, which in turn led to better PWB. These results highlighted the relevance of parenting styles and school-based causal attributions for the understanding of adolescents' mental health. Our findings can support interventions that enable more effective teaching–learning processes, which are associated with higher levels of mental health for the adolescent population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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