Relationships between Self-esteem, Future Time Perspective, and Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Study
LIXiao-bao WU Lan-ting LYU Hou-chao
(Faculty of Psychology, Time Psychology Research Center, China Community Psychology Services and Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715)
Abstract：Both future time perspective and self-esteem are closely related to academic achievement,but the casual relationship between future time perspective and self-esteem is unclear. The aims of the presentlongitudinal study were to explore reciprocal relations between future time perspective and self-esteem in early adolescents, and to examine the predictive effects of future time perspective and self-esteem on academic achievement. A total of 213 adolescents from Henan junior middle school at Grade 1 participated questionnaire survey twice in a six-month interval. Through the path analysis, we found that both future time perspective and self-esteem at time 1 predicted significantly academic achievement at time 2. Cross-lagged regression analysesfor the total samples showed thatself-esteem at time 1 positively predicted future time perspective at time 2, but future time perspective at time 1 failed to predictself-esteem at time2.We also found that future time perspective at time 2 mediated the relationship between self-esteem at time 1 and academic achievement at time 2. The results of this study have implications for educational practice and suggestions were provided for the academic achievement of adolescents.
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