A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Concern or confidence? Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts – Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts




SubtitleAdolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts

AuthorsJenni Tikkanen

PublisherElsevier

Publishing placeUnited Kingdom

Publication year2016

JournalJournal of Adolescence

Journal acronymJoA

Volume46

First page 14

Last page24

Number of pages11

ISSN0140-1971

eISSN1095-9254

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.10.011

Web address http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197115002444


Abstract

This present study investigated the roles identity capital and school's socio-economic status have on adolescent worry about future education, employment, and social status. The 354 participants were 14- to 15-year-old students from affluent (56.8%) and disadvantaged (43.2%) Finnish lower secondary schools. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesis that a higher level of family-related identity capital is connected to a lower level of future worry, and that this connection is mediated through intrapersonal forms of identity capital, specifically academic self-concept and general self-efficacy. Adolescent future worry was also examined across school status with an independent samples t-test. The findings suggest that, in the relatively equal societal context in Finland, adolescents are rather confident about their future education, employment, and social status regardless of the socio-economic status of the school they attend, and when their level of identity capital is high the future worry decreases further.




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