Parenting and adolescent adjustment: The mediational role of family self-esteem

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作者：
Isabel Martínez
Sergio Murgui
Oscar F. Garcia
Fernando Garcia
机构：
[1] University of Castilla-La Mancha,Psychology Department
[2] University of Valencia,Social Psychology Department
[3] University of Valencia,Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
[4] University of Valencia,Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences
来源：
Journal of Child and Family Studies | 2021年 / 30卷
关键词：
Self-esteem; Parental practices; Adolescence adjustment; Emotional instability; Antisocial behavior; Academic achievement;
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The present study analyzes the relationship between parental socialization practices, acceptance/involvement, and strictness/imposition, and different indicators of adolescent adjustment, taking into account the role of family self-esteem. A sample of 848 Spanish adolescents (54.70% females) ranging in age from 14 to 18 years old (M = 16.11, SD = 1.10) participated in the study. A series of structural equations models (SEMs) were tested to examine the mediational role of family self-esteem in the relationship between parenting practices and the outcome variables that capture adolescent adjustment: emotional instability, antisocial behavior, and academic achievement. The influence of parental practices on adolescent adjustment is expected to take place through family self-esteem. The results showed that the effect of acceptance/involvement and strictness/imposition practices on emotional instability, antisocial behavior, and academic achievement was mediated by family self-esteem. Family self-esteem eliminates the previous direct relationships between parental practices and all the adolescent adjustment variables, except the one between acceptance/involvement and emotional instability, which was reduced but not eliminated. Acceptance/involvement practices positively influence adolescents’ adjustment via family self-esteem, whereas strictness/imposition practices negatively influence adolescents’ adjustment via family self-esteem. This study contributes to clarifying the relationship between parental practices and adolescent adjustment, considering family self-esteem as a mediational variable rather than as an adolescent adjustment indicator. The present findings and their implications for parenting science are discussed.
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页数：13
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