Perceived Parent–Child Relations and Adolescent Self-Esteem

Abstract

We used data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to assess the independent and interactive correlations of maternal and paternal parenting with adolescent self-esteem. Specifically, ordinary least squares regression was used to provide estimates for a large, culturally diverse sample of married, biological parent-families with adolescent children. Our results suggested that adolescent reports of mothers' and fathers' physical availability, involvement, and quality of relations are each independently associated with adolescent self-esteem. In addition, statistically significant interactions indicated the positive associations of one parent's involvement and high quality relations with self-esteem grow stronger in the presence of high involvement and relationship quality of the second parent. Our study highlights the need to assess the independent and interactive associations parents have with the well-being of their children.

Marital Conflict and Early Adolescents’ Self-Evaluation: The Role of Parenting Quality and Early Adolescents’ Appraisals

“…Although we could not integrate both into one model due to the high intercorrelations, the study supports the expectation that both mothers and fathers are important for early adolescents' self-esteem. This is in accordance with other studies on the relationship between mothers' and fathers' parenting and self-esteem (Bulanda and Majumdar 2009;Milevsky et al 2007;Plunkett et al 2007). However, the result that only fathers' parenting is associated with scholastic competence but not mothers' parenting is surprising.…”

“…This longitudinal study, using adolescents' self-reports, indicated that parenting quality (parental warmth and psychological control) did indeed mediate the link between adolescents' awareness of marital conflict and subsequent decreases in self-esteem. Further studies also indicate positive relationships between parenting quality and adolescents' self-esteem (e.g., Bulanda and Majumdar 2009;Lamborn et al 1991) and scholastic competence (Bronstein et al 2005;Kokkinos and Hatzinikolaou 2011), lending support to the relevancy of the spillover hypothesis in explaining the negative effect of marital conflict on children's self-evaluation.…”

“…Three recent studies on the relationship between parenting and self-esteem in middle and late adolescence, however, differentiated between parenting of mothers and fathers (Bulanda and Majumdar 2009;Milevsky et al 2007;Plunkett et al 2007). The three studies came to the conclusion that both fathers' and mothers' parenting substantially and independently contributed to adolescents' self-esteem.…”

Effect of Value Education Program Applied in Life Studies Lesson on Self-Esteem, Social Problem-Solving Skills and Empathy Levels of Students

“…Ancak, bu araştırmanın sonuçları ile Germaine (2001) ve Scott'ın (2004) yürüttüğü araştırma sonuçlarının tutarlılık gösterdiği söylenebilir. Özsaygı, sosyal hayat, ailevi tutumlar gibi pek çok farklı dışsal faktörden etkilenmektedir (Bulanda ve Majumdar, 2009;Frank, Plunkett ve Otten, 2010). Bu araştırma için de böyle bir durumun söz konusu olabileceği, söylenebilir.…”

Parent-adolescent conflict and depression symptoms of adolescents: mediator role of self-esteem

“…There is a significant role of parents in this process. Supportive behaviors of parent's leads adolescents to feel loved and valued as a person, in other words, affect the adolescent selfesteem in a positive way (32,33). On the other hand, parent-adolescent conflict perceived as unsupportive parenting behaviors by adolescent, and this negatively affects the self-esteem of adolescents (34).…”