Abstract
This study investigated psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between stressful life events and school adjustment in Chinese adolescents. The Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist, the Adolescent Executive Function Scale, the Chinese version of the Resilience Scale, and the School-adjustment Scale were administered to 1101 Chinese adolescents (465 males, 636 females), aged 11–19 years, from three secondary schools. Results from serial mediation analysis revealed that perceived stressful life events could affect school adjustment through the mediation of executive function and resilience. The mediation effect contained three paths, the separate mediation effect of executive function, the separate mediation effect of resilience, and the serial mediation effect of executive function and resilience. These findings provide valuable insights into the effect of perceived stressful life events on school adjustment of Chinese adolescents, and suggest that, the researchers and educators could enhance school adjustment in vulnerable groups by improving their executive function and resilience.
Highlights
We will encounter various stressful events in our daily life
Executive function was positively correlated with resilience, and resilience was positively correlated with school adjustment
The latent stressful life events variables were described as a being punished factor, loss factor, relationship pressure factor, learning pressure factor, and adaptation problem factor
Summary
We will encounter various stressful events in our daily life. Stressful life events refer to life experiences that result in changes in an individual’s life and those that necessitate coping and adjustment strategies (Compas, 1987). Adolescence is an important transition in academic, cognitive, social, physiological, and physical change (Arnett, 1999), and is a fragile developmental stage characterized by exposure to stressful life events and their debilitating mental health effects (Byrne et al, 2007). The stressful life events among adolescents have attracted the attention of many researchers (Dupéré et al, 2018; Han et al, 2018; Humphreys et al, 2018). Other studies further pointed that the stressful life events played a role in
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