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Concern or confidence? Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts.
- Source :
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Journal of Adolescence . Jan2016, Vol. 46, p14-24. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This present study investigated the roles identity capital and school's socio-economic status have on adolescent worry about future education, employment, and social status. The 354 participants were 14- to 15-year-old students from affluent (56.8%) and disadvantaged (43.2%) Finnish lower secondary schools. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesis that a higher level of family-related identity capital is connected to a lower level of future worry, and that this connection is mediated through intrapersonal forms of identity capital, specifically academic self-concept and general self-efficacy. Adolescent future worry was also examined across school status with an independent samples t-test. The findings suggest that, in the relatively equal societal context in Finland, adolescents are rather confident about their future education, employment, and social status regardless of the socio-economic status of the school they attend, and when their level of identity capital is high the future worry decreases further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01401971
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Adolescence
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112055915
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.10.011