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December 10, 2025Child Care Health and DevelopmentOpen Access

The Effect of Effortful Control and Intentional Self‐Regulation on Positive Mental Health in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Mediation Model

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MZMing-Yi ZhuHLHanmei LiuXWXi Wang

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Longitudinal study shows social connectedness indirectly affects positive mental health through self-regulation in adolescents.

Key Points

  • This study investigates the impact of self-regulation on positive mental health in adolescents.
  • Two-wave longitudinal study with 877 adolescents in China
  • Measured effortful control and intentional self-regulation at T1
  • Assessed social connectedness and positive mental health at T2
  • Utilized structural equation modelling with bootstrap analysis
  • Effortful control and intentional self-regulation significantly predicted positive mental health
  • Social connectedness mediated the relationship between self-regulation and mental health
  • Indirect effects accounted for 48.31% and 30.92% of total effects from effortful control and self-regulation respectively
  • Direct effects of self-regulation on positive mental health became nonsignificant after including social connectedness

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Zhu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401d472d562116f28f85b0https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.70217
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