Adaptability, Personality, and Social Support: Examining Links with Psychological Wellbeing among Chinese High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Holliman, Andrew; Cheng, Feifei; Waldeck, Daniel
Titel	Adaptability, Personality, and Social Support: Examining Links with Psychological Wellbeing among Chinese High School Students
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Psychology, 11 (2022) 2, S.125-152 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Holliman, Andrew) ORCID (Waldeck, Daniel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2014-3591
Schlagwörter	Student Adjustment; Personality Traits; Boarding Schools; High School Students; Mental Health; Well Being; Social Support Groups; Student Attitudes; Life Satisfaction; Neurosis; Extraversion Introversion; Correlation; Emotional Disturbances; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Boarding school; Internat; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Psychohygiene; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Schülerverhalten; Lebensvollendung; Neurose; Korrelation; Gefühlsstörung; Ausland
Abstract	The first year of boarding senior high school marks a period of great change for students. The extent to which students are able to adjust to successfully navigate this change (adaptability) likely has an impact on their psychological wellbeing. It has also been theorized that students' personality traits and perceived social support may impact upon their adaptability and, directly and/or indirectly through adaptability, influence their psychological wellbeing. However, the literature examining independent and mediating effects of adaptability on psychological wellbeing is sparse particularly among students from non-Western cultures. In the present study, 102 grade-one high school students in China, were surveyed for their personality, perceived social support, adaptability, and psychological wellbeing (life satisfaction, mental well-being, and psychological distress). Findings showed that adaptability (along with neuroticism, extraversion, and social support) made a significant independent contribution to students' psychological wellbeing. Further, adaptability was found to fully mediate the relationships between personality (conscientiousness and neuroticism) and psychological wellbeing, and to partially mediate the relationships between extraversion and psychological wellbeing, and social support and psychological wellbeing. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications for researchers and educators who are seeking to support students' adjustment to boarding senior high school. (As Provided).
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