Psychology News
A team of researchers at Jiangnan University, China, explored how teens are more resilient when their fathers are present in their upbringing. The study is published in the journal Psychological Reports.
The Study
The researchers analyzed data from a series of surveys conducted to examine failure learning. Participants, aged 12–18 years, from Chinese middle and secondary schools in the Jiangsu Province and Shanxi Provinces were invited to complete questionnaires.
These include the Chinese father presence scale, an adolescence resilience scale, and a failure learning measure.
The Findings
The results revealed that participants who experienced high-quality father presence in their upbringing also displayed greater psychological resilience and failure learning. The authors added: “The paper did also provide support for the mediating effect of failure learning in the relationship between Chinese father presence and adolescents’ resilience. It underscored the role of failure learning to promote adolescents’ resilience when encountering setbacks.”
To Know More You May Refer To
Yu, Y., Wei, X., Hisrich, R. D., & Xue, L. (2022). Father Presence and Adolescents’ Resilience: The Mediating Role of Failure Learning. Psychological reports, 125(6), 2865–2878. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941211029611
