Abstract
The present study examined the longitudinal effects of parental attachment on the change of work value during adolescence. Using 5-year longitudinal data from Korean Youth Panel Study (KYPS), the current study tracked changes of both the intrinsic and extrinsic work values in 3,499 nationally representative adolescents throughout their middle and high school years. Latent Growth Modeling (LGM) was used to evaluate potential current and lagged effects of parental attachment on the development of adolescents' work value. In the linear growth model, adolescents' extrinsic work value gradually decreased but intrinsic work value increased across participants' school grades. Controlling parental attachment positively affected the changing rates of intrinsic work value, but not in the case of extrinsic work value. Current effects of parental attachment lasted for five years both in the changes of intrinsic and extrinsic work values. In contrast, lagged effects disappeared after participants reached their senior year of high school. Results are discussed in terms of changing trajectory of Korean adolescents' work value, as well as, the importance of parental attachment and the desirable parent-child relationship in order to facilitate the development of adolescents' work value.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Longitudinal Effects of Parental Attachment on the Change of Adolescent Work Value |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 258-308 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | 청소년학연구 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2014 |