ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2023
The social gradient in adolescent mental health: mediated or moderated by belief in a just world?
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- Short-term longitudinal associations among parent-child relationship quality, internalizing and externalizing problems, and belief in a just world: a three-wave RI-CLPM.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Relations between Belief in a Just World and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems among Chinese Secondary Vocational Students.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- How does family economic background shape adolescents' present- and future-oriented well-being? Roles of perceived discrimination and grit.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Just-World Beliefs, System Justification, and Their Relationship with People's Health-Related Well-Being: A Narrative Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Longitudinal associations between socioeconomic status and psychosocial problems in preschool children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Examining the role of civic attitudes in the link between family wealth and school dropout among tertiary vocational students.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Another day to die: stories from the silent pandemic.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Mediating Role of Chinese College Students' Control Strategies: Belief in a Just World and Life History Strategy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeA social gradient in adolescent mental health exists: adolescents with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have fewer mental health problems than their peers with lower SES. Little is known about whether adolescents' societal beliefs play a role in this social gradient. Belief in a just world (BJW) may be a mediator or moderator of the social gradient in adolescent mental health.
methodsUsing data from 848 adolescents (M
resultsAdolescents with lower family affluence and lower perceived family wealth reported more emotional symptoms, and the association between perceived family wealth and emotional symptoms was mediated by lower personal and general BJW. Furthermore, higher personal BJW amplified the negative association between SES and peer problems.
conclusionThis study suggests BJW may both mediate and amplify the social gradient in adolescent mental health. Adolescents' beliefs about society may be important to include in research aimed at understanding this social gradient.
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