Raising trophy kids: The role of mothers' contingent self‐esteem in maternal promotion of extrinsic goals

Soenens, Bart; Wuyts, Dorien; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Mageau, Geneviève A.; Brenning, Katrijn

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.04.001

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“…These results are not completely aligned with previous research, which found that child-invested parental contingent self-worth was related to the use of a more controlling approach towards others (Soenens, Wuyts, Vansteenkiste, Mageau, & Brenning, 2015;Wuyts et al, 2015). Several explanations can be provided for this inconsistency.…”

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Is nurses’ self‐esteem interwoven with patients’ achievements? The concept of patient‐invested contingent self‐esteem

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Objectives To explore the notion of patient‐invested contingent self‐esteem (Pa‐CSE) and investigate its association to nurses’ self‐reported engagement in controlling or autonomy‐supportive interactions with chronic care patients. Background Considering the high number of patients sub‐optimally managing their chronic condition, nurses might experience a drop and rise in self‐worth when patients fail and succeed, respectively, in managing their chronic condition. This dynamic has not received prior research attention. Design Multivariate analysis employing cross‐sectional data according to STROBE guidelines. Methods Self‐reports among nurses employed in chronic care (N = 394) from eight randomly selected hospitals in Belgium. Exploratory factor analysis and stepwise linear regression analyses were conducted. Results Success‐based and failure‐based orientations could be distinguished and refer to nurses' tendency to associate, respectively, patients’ successes with feelings of professional success and self‐worth and patients’ failures with feelings of professional failure, shame and inadequacy. Nurses’ self‐esteem is fairly interwoven with patients’ achievements in the management of their chronic condition. A success‐based orientation was positively related to autonomy‐supportive care in case a failure‐based orientation was low. Nurses with a simultaneous success‐based and failure‐based orientation interacted in a more controlling way. Conclusions The findings of this study suggest that basing one's self‐worth on patients' accomplishments may be a double‐edged sword. Although tying one's personal glory to the successes of one's patient is related to greater patient participation and support of autonomy, these effects only emerge if nurses' self‐worth is not interwoven with patients' failures. In fact, having both success‐ and failure‐oriented contingent self‐worth is related to a more pressuring approach. Relevance to clinical practice To prevent nurses from developing inferior professional feelings when their patients fail to manage their condition, a reflective stance towards the impact of patients’ behaviour on the nurses' professional feeling of (in)adequacy is an important step to deal with such situations.

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Is nurses’ self‐esteem interwoven with patients’ achievements? The concept of patient‐invested contingent self‐esteem

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“…Although past studies have focused mostly on goals that people have for their own achievements, research is beginning to show that in relationships people elaborate goals that concern the person with whom they are interacting and that these goals influence their behaviors toward this other person (Carbonneau and Koestner 2014;Soenens et al 2015). The present findings, together with Gonida and Cortina (2014)'s study, confirm that parents do have goals regarding their children's achievements and that these achievement goals are associated with their parenting behaviors.…”

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The Role of Parental Achievement Goals in Predicting Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting

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Although autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting are linked to numerous positive and negative child outcomes respectively, fewer studies have focused on their determinants. Drawing on achievement goal theory and self-determination theory, we propose that parental achievement goals (i.e., achievement goals that parents have for their children) can be mastery, performance-approach or performance-avoidance oriented and that types of goals predict mothers' tendency to adopt autonomysupportive and controlling behaviors. A total of 67 mothers (aged 30-53 years) reported their goals for their adolescent (aged 13-16 years; 19.4 % girls), while their adolescent evaluated their mothers' behaviors. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that parental performance-approach goals predict more controlling parenting and prevent acknowledgement of feelings, one autonomy-supportive behavior. In addition, mothers who have mastery goals and who endorse performance-avoidance goals are less likely to use guilt-inducing criticisms. These findings were observed while controlling for the effect of maternal anxiety.

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“…Some evidence suggests that adolescent’s aspirations may be linked to the aspirations of their close others (Soenens, Wuyts, Vansteenkiste, Mageau, & Brenning, 2015), as well as to the degree to which their parents are autonomy‐supportive (Kasser, Koestner, & Lekes, 2002). However, such claims have been under‐researched, and focus primarily on the role of mothers and usually in Western, non‐individualistic countries.…”

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“…Finally, we test the associations between fathers’ and adolescents’ own intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations and the well‐being of both fathers and their adolescent children (for example, to what extent does fathers’ relative intrinsic aspiring link to the basic psychological needs of their children). There is considerable evidence to suggest that aspirations affect one’s own well‐being (Kasser & Ryan, 1993, 1996, 2001), and some evidence to suggest that one’s own aspirations relate to the aspirations of close others (Soenens et al, 2015).…”

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Satisfaction of basic psychological needs in an interdependence model of fathers’ own aspirations and those of their adolescent children

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Anchored in self‐determination theory (SDT), we used a sample of 310 Japanese father‐child dyads (fathers Mage = 47.95; children Mage = 14.98, 50% female), to investigate: (a) the structure of aspirations in a Japanese sample, (b) the association between fathers’ own intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations and the aspirations reported by their adolescent children, (c) the links between child‐reported father autonomy support and children’s self‐ reported aspirations, and (d) the associations between fathers’ own and children’s own aspirations and the basic psychological needs satisfaction of both fathers and children. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated acceptable fit for the theorized model of intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations specified by SDT. Correlation analysis revealed positive associations between the aspirations of fathers’ and those endorsed by their children, which were not moderated by father’s autonomy support. Actor‐partner interdependence modeling indicated that when fathers were relatively intrinsic in their orientations, basic psychological need satisfaction was higher for both themselves and their children. These findings highlight the relevance of intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations to the well‐being of youth and the interplay between fathers’ and children’s aspirations, suggesting that both fathers’ intrinsic aspirations and parenting styles are associated with children’s basic psychological needs satisfaction.

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Raising trophy kids: The role of mothers' contingent self‐esteem in maternal promotion of extrinsic goals

Cited by 29 publications

References 39 publications

Is nurses’ self‐esteem interwoven with patients’ achievements? The concept of patient‐invested contingent self‐esteem

Is nurses’ self‐esteem interwoven with patients’ achievements? The concept of patient‐invested contingent self‐esteem

The Role of Parental Achievement Goals in Predicting Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting

Satisfaction of basic psychological needs in an interdependence model of fathers’ own aspirations and those of their adolescent children

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