Parenting Styles and Adolescents' Self-Esteem in Brazil

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Parenting Styles and Adolescents' Self-Esteem in Brazil

José Fernando Garcia Isabel Martínez Santiago Yubero

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Adult Male Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Personal Adjustment Developmental psychology Surveys and Questionnaires On demand Parenting performance Parenting styles Humans Family 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Parent-Child Relations Child General Psychology media_common Parenting 05 social sciences Authoritarianism Self-esteem 050301 education Self Concept Attitude Female Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Brazil

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Summary.—This study explored the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem among 1,239 11- to 15-yr.-old Brazilian adolescents (54% girls; M age = 13.4 yr., S!D= 1.4). Teenagers' families were classified into 1 of 4 groups (Authorita tive, Authoritarian, Indulgent, or Neglectful) based on adolescents' answers to the ESPA29 Parental Socialization Scale. Participants completed the AF5 Multidimen sional Self-Esteem Scale which appraises five dimensions: Academic, Social, Emotion al, Family, and Physical. Analyses showed that Brazilian adolescents from Indulgent families scored equal (Academic and Social) or higher (Family) in Self-esteem than adolescents from Authoritative families. Adolescents from Indulgent families scored higher than adolescents from Authoritarian and Neglectful families in four Self-esteem dimensions, Academic, Social, Family, and Physical. Adolescents from Authoritative families scored higher than adolescents from Authoritarian and Neglectful families in three Self-esteem dimensions, Academic, Social, and Family. These results suggest that Authoritative parenting is not associated with optimum self-esteem in Brazil. This study analyzes the relationship between parenting styles and adoles cents' personal adjustment, indicated by the adolescents' self-esteem, in Bra zil. Parenting is one of the most relevant perspectives in the study of rela tionships between parents and children. Parenting performance and its effect on children's developmental outcomes (Maccoby & Martin, 1983; Gray & Steinberg, 1999) has traditionally been studied as two orthogonal constructs, demandingness and responsiveness (Maccoby & Martin, 1983; Baumrind, 1989, 1991). Demandingness refers to the extent to which parents show con trol, supervision, and maturity demands in their parenting; responsiveness re fers to the extent to which parents show their children affective warmth and acceptance, give them support, and communicate with them. Based on these two dimensions, four parenting styles have been identified (Maccoby & Mar tin, 1983; Baumrind, 1991): Authoritative parents are high both on demand ingness and responsiveness, Indulgent parents are low on demandingness and high on responsivenes s, Authoritarian parents are high on demanding

year	journal	country	edition	language
2007-06-01	Psychological Reports

https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.100.3.731-745