Occupational future time perspective and mental health problems across adolescence: Random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis and alternative variations

IF 3 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI:10.1002/jad.12438

Yi Yang, Ingrid Obsuth, Xinxin Zhu, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner, Aja Murray

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Abstract

Introduction

Adolescence is a crucial developmental stage characterized by escalating mental health issues as well as an increasing awareness of future career possibilities. Occupational future time perspective has been shown to be a promotive factor for social functioning and mental health, and a component in evidence-based clinical practices and randomized controlled trial intervention studies. However, it requires more rigorous and ecological corroboration from longitudinal analysis at the within-person level.

Methods

Random intercept cross-lagged panel models with several adjustments and sensitivity analyses were applied to the longitudinal data from the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (Zurich, Switzerland), to analyze how occupational future time perspective and psychological/neurodevelopmental outcomes (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms/externalizing/internalizing problems) covaried across ages 13 (N = 1365), 15 (N = 1446), and 17 (N = 1305) in the years 2016, 2018, and 2020, after controlling for sex (52% male), SES, and school type.

Results

A small effect was found in a random intercept cross-lagged panel model whereby occupational future time perspective at age 15 predicted externalizing problems at age 17 (β = .146, p = .05, [95% CI = 0.000, 0.292]), and in a random intercept (contemporaneous) reciprocal panel model specification attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms at age 17 were contemporaneously associated with occupational future time perspective at age 17 (β = −.310, p < .05, [95% CI = −0.580, −0.041]). No cross-lagged associations were found to be robust across different model specifications/adjustments.

Conclusions

These findings suggest that improving occupational future time perspective may have limited impact on enhancing mental health, offering valuable insights for school-based interventions. Further research and replication are necessary to confirm these results.

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职业未来时间视角与青春期心理健康问题：随机截距交叉滞后面板分析和替代变量。

导言青春期是一个关键的成长阶段，其特点是心理健康问题不断升级，对未来职业可能性的认识不断提高。职业未来时间观已被证明是社会功能和心理健康的促进因素，也是循证临床实践和随机对照试验干预研究的组成部分。然而，这需要在个人层面上进行纵向分析，以获得更严格的生态学佐证：随机截距交叉滞后面板模型经过多次调整和敏感性分析后，被应用于苏黎世童年至成年社会发展项目（瑞士苏黎世）的纵向数据、在控制了性别（52%为男性）、社会经济地位和学校类型之后，分析了2016年、2018年和2020年13岁（样本数=1365）、15岁（样本数=1446）和17岁（样本数=1305）年龄段的职业未来时间视角与心理/神经发育结果（注意缺陷多动障碍症状/外在化/内在化问题）之间的协整关系。结果在随机截距交叉滞后面板模型中，15岁时的职业未来时空观可预测17岁时的外化问题（β = .146，p = .05，[95% CI = 0.000, 0.292]），而在随机截距（同期）往复面板模型中，17岁时的注意缺陷多动障碍症状与17岁时的职业未来时空观存在同期相关性（β = -.310，p 结论：在随机截距交叉滞后面板模型中，15岁时的职业未来时空观可预测17岁时的外化问题（β = .146，p = .05，[95% CI = 0.000, 0.292]）：这些研究结果表明，改善职业未来时间观对提高心理健康水平的影响可能有限，这为校本干预提供了宝贵的启示。要证实这些结果，还需要进一步的研究和复制。

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Journal of Adolescence PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

2.60%

发文量

123

期刊介绍： The Journal of Adolescence is an international, broad based, cross-disciplinary journal that addresses issues of professional and academic importance concerning development between puberty and the attainment of adult status within society. It provides a forum for all who are concerned with the nature of adolescence, whether involved in teaching, research, guidance, counseling, treatment, or other services. The aim of the journal is to encourage research and foster good practice through publishing both empirical and clinical studies as well as integrative reviews and theoretical advances.