The Effect Of Parental Control On Future Planning Among Junior High School Students:Chain Mediating Effect Of Personal Growth Initiative And Meaning In Life

Adolescence is a period of contemplation and preparation for the transition to adulthood,and it is also a critical period for the rapid development of an individual’s future orientation.The most important psychological process of future orientation is future planning.During this period,adolescents’ thinking and planning about their own future development have a positive effect on their future life.The study surveyed 909 students from the first to third grades of a public junior high school in Anyang City,Henan Province.First,they completed the Adolescent Future Planning Questionnaire,Parental Control Questionnaire,Adolescent’s Personal Growth Initiative Scale,and Meaning in Life Questionnaire to measure the current status of their future planning,parental control,personal growth initiative,and sense of life meaning.Then we examined the influence of parental control on junior high school students’ future planning,and further explored the internal mechanism of personal growth initiative and sense of life meaning between the two.By adopting SPSS25.0 and PROCESS v3.5 to analyze the collected data,the main research results are as follows:(1)Parental behavioral control was significantly positively correlated with junior high school students’ personal growth initiative,meaning in life,and future planning;parental psychological control was only significantly positively correlated with meaning in life;junior high school students’ personal growth initiative was significantly positively correlated with meaning in life and future planning;there is a significant positive correlation between junior high school students’ meaning in life and future planning.(2)Parental psychological control can directly and negatively predict the future planning of junior high school students,while parental behavioral control cannot directly predict the future planning of junior high school students.(3)Personal growth initiative plays a mediating role between parental behavioral control and junior high school students’ future planning.(4)Meaning in life not only plays a mediating role between parental behavioral control and junior high school students’ planning,but also plays suppression effect between parental psychological control and junior high school students’ future planning.(5)Personal growth initiative and meaning in life play a chain mediating role between parental behavioral control and junior high school students’ future planning.The research results show that the future planning of junior high school students will be largely affected by parental control,but the role of parental behavior and psychological control is different.The internal mechanism of personal growth initiative and life meaning between parental control and junior high school students’ future planning is complicated.Specifically,the future planning of junior high school students can be positively affected by behavioral control from parents,and this positive influence can only be realized through the mediating role of personal growth initiative and meaning in life;while parental psychological control can directly affect future planning,but sense of meaning in life plays a suppression effect in it.Based on the complex relationship among various variables,the positive role of family factors should be fully utilized in the education guidance work for the future planning of junior high school students,and the corresponding functions of society and schools should be brought into play at the same time to help parents choose scientific parenting methods and cultivate students’ positive psychological quality.So as to help junior high school students better plan for the future.