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Parents' future-oriented practices uniquely predict greater prosocial leadership and resistance to peer influence in Chinese adolescents over time, with increases in these practices specifically enhancing prosocial leadership in urban youth. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how parents' future-oriented practices influence adolescents' social adjustment over time across urban and rural Chinese families.

September 3, 2026Developmental Psychology

Parents’ future-oriented practices and adolescents’ social adjustment in Chinese urban and rural families.

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ZZZexi Zhou ZSZeyi Shi QWQian Wang

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Longitudinal study demonstrates that parents' future-oriented practices foster social adjustment in adolescents, indicating the importance of culturally salient parenting across urban and rural...

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To examine how parents' future-oriented practices influence adolescents' social adjustment over time across urban and rural Chinese families.
Assessed adolescents (mean age = 12.87 years; 49% rural residents) via adolescent self-reports and teacher ratings across longitudinal timepoints.
Evaluated adolescent-perceived parental future-oriented practices alongside general parenting dimensions including autonomy support and psychological control.
Urban adolescents reported higher baseline levels of parental future-oriented practices than rural adolescents.
Higher baseline future-oriented parenting predicted increased prosocial leadership and resistance to peer influence over time in both regions, independent of autonomy support and psychological control.
Greater increases over time in future-oriented parenting predicted gains in prosocial leadership among urban adolescents, but not among rural adolescents.

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Zhou et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9934cf636c6408cfa7c9bb https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002241

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September 3, 2026Developmental Psychology

Parents’ future-oriented practices and adolescents’ social adjustment in Chinese urban and rural families.

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ZZZexi Zhou ZSZeyi Shi QWQian Wang

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Longitudinal study demonstrates that parents' future-oriented practices foster social adjustment in adolescents, indicating the importance of culturally salient parenting across urban and rural...

Key Points

To examine how parents' future-oriented practices influence adolescents' social adjustment over time across urban and rural Chinese families.
Assessed adolescents (mean age = 12.87 years; 49% rural residents) via adolescent self-reports and teacher ratings across longitudinal timepoints.
Evaluated adolescent-perceived parental future-oriented practices alongside general parenting dimensions including autonomy support and psychological control.
Urban adolescents reported higher baseline levels of parental future-oriented practices than rural adolescents.
Higher baseline future-oriented parenting predicted increased prosocial leadership and resistance to peer influence over time in both regions, independent of autonomy support and psychological control.
Greater increases over time in future-oriented parenting predicted gains in prosocial leadership among urban adolescents, but not among rural adolescents.

Cite This Study

Zhou et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9934cf636c6408cfa7c9bb https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002241

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