Ego-Resiliency and Perceived Social Support in Late Childhood: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach

Qishan Chen, Wenyang Gao, Bin-Bin Chen, Yurou Kong, Liuying Lu and Shuting Yang
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Qishan Chen: School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Wenyang Gao: School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Bin-Bin Chen: Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Yurou Kong: School of Management, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Liuying Lu: School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Shuting Yang: Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: This study explored the change trajectory of schoolchildren’s ego-resiliency and perceived social support and investigated the effect of perceived social support on ego-resiliency across four time points. A sample of 437 children aged 8–13 years ( M = 10.99, SD = 0.70, 51.5% boys) completed assessments at four time points. The results indicated that ego-resiliency showed an increasing linear trend and perceived social support showed a declining linear trend. Perceived social support had a positive effect on ego-resiliency over time. In addition, the initial status of perceived social support negatively predicted the growth trend of ego-resiliency, and the initial status of ego-resiliency negatively predicted the declining trend of perceived social support. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Keywords: late childhood; ego-resiliency; perceived social support; latent growth modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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