Longitudinal Impact of Parenting on Grit: Serial Mediating Effect of Gratitude and Life Satisfaction

IF 3.3 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI:10.1002/ijop.70074

Kelly Ka Lai Lam, Shan Zhao, Hongfei Du, Liuyue Huang, Peilian Chi

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Despite previous research demonstrating the importance of positive parenting in fostering adolescents' grit levels, very little is known about the longitudinal pathway and underlying mechanism of this relationship. Therefore, we conducted a three-wave longitudinal study over 18 months among a sample of Chinese adolescents. Guided by the bioecological model of human development, the internal working model, and the broaden-and-build theory, we tested a serial mediation model of gratitude and life satisfaction in the parenting-grit link. A total of 660 adolescents (aged 11–15 years, mean age = 12.56 years, 46.51% girls) from Southern China responded to the paper-and-pencil questionnaire. Results supported the hypothesised serial mediating effect. That is, adolescents with positive parenting (indicated as more parental care, encouraging autonomy, and less control) tended to report higher levels of gratitude, which further promoted greater life satisfaction, and subsequently strengthened their grit levels. These findings highlight the role of gratitude and life satisfaction as joint mediating factors in the relationship between positive parenting and grit. Interventions focused on improving adolescents' grit that incorporate positive parenting practices could benefit from the approaches targeting parents' need-supportive behaviour and adolescents' psychological well-being.

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父母教养对毅力的纵向影响：感恩与生活满意度的序列中介效应

尽管之前的研究表明了积极的父母教育在培养青少年毅力水平方面的重要性，但人们对这种关系的纵向途径和潜在机制知之甚少。因此，我们在中国青少年样本中进行了为期18个月的三波纵向研究。在人类发展的生物生态模型、内在工作模型和拓展-构建理论的指导下，我们检验了感恩与生活满意度在父母-砂砾关系中的串行中介模型。共有660名来自华南地区的青少年（11-15岁，平均年龄12.56岁，其中46.51%为女孩）参与了纸笔问卷调查。结果支持了序列中介效应的假设。也就是说，有积极父母教养的青少年（表现为更多的父母关怀，鼓励自主权，更少的控制）倾向于报告更高水平的感恩，这进一步提高了他们的生活满意度，随后增强了他们的毅力水平。这些发现强调了感恩和生活满意度作为积极父母教养和毅力之间关系的共同中介因素的作用。针对父母的需求支持行为和青少年的心理健康的方法可以使注重改善青少年毅力的干预措施受益，这些干预措施结合了积极的养育实践。

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International Journal of Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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