Pathways to educational aspirations: resilience as a mediator of proximal resources and risks

Figures & data

Table 1. Spearman rank correlations between mental health and behavioural predictor variables, and CYRM-28 Resilience and educational aspiration.

Predictor	CYRM-28 resilience	Educational achievement aspiration
SDQ prosocial behaviour	.45***	.13***
SDQ peer problems	−.22***	−.09**
SDQ conduct problems	−.35***	−.20***
Delinquency	−.31***	−.25***
Depression symptoms	−.34***	−.12***
Māori ethnicity	−.04	−.11***

**p < .001.

***p < .0001.

Table 2. Comparisons of SG and CG on measures of predictors, CYRM-28 resilience, and educational aspiration.

Measure	SG	CG	X^2/t	p
	n = 593	n = 773
% Māori ethnicity	47.4	31.3	6.14	<.0001
Mean (SEM) SDQ prosocial behaviour	7.72 (.07)	7.91 (.06)	−2.04	<.05
Mean (SEM) SDQ peer problems	2.49 (.07)	1.53 (.05)	11.26	<.0001
Mean (SEM) SDQ conduct problems	4.53 (.10)	2.09 (.07)	20.37	<.0001
Mean (SEM) delinquency score	10.28 (.30)	2.53 (.14)	25.37	<.0001
Mean (SEM) depression score	9.93 (.25)	6.85 (.18)	10.25	<.0001
Mean (SEM) CYRM resilience score	103.44 (.66)	110.70 (.53)	−8.70	<.0001
Mean (SEM) educational achievement aspirations	3.55 (.09)	4.44 (.07)	−7.82	<.0001

Note: Nonparametric median tests showed the same pattern of significant (p < .05) differences.

Figure 1. Fitted path analytic regression model of the association between predictors and educational aspiration, mediated by CYRM-28 Resilience (standardised regression coefficients shown). *p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.