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




Adolescents' identity capital and future worry in different school contexts

Jenni Tikkanen

PublisherElsevier

United Kingdom

2016

Journal of Adolescence

JoA

46

14

24

11

0140-1971

1095-9254

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

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



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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