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

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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)

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.

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  • Qishan Chen & Wenyang Gao & Bin-Bin Chen & Yurou Kong & Liuying Lu & Shuting Yang, 2021. "Ego-Resiliency and Perceived Social Support in Late Childhood: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-12, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:6:p:2978-:d:516731
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