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The role of parents' self‐esteem, mastery‐orientation and social background in their parenting styles

Jari-erik NurmiTiina Onatsu-arvilommiLea PulkkinenKaisa Aunola

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AdultMaleParentsAdolescentmedia_common.quotation_subjectSelf-conceptAuthoritarianismStyle (sociolinguistics)Developmental psychologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Orientation (mental)Stress (linguistics)Developmental and Educational PsychologyParenting stylesHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesChildInternal-External ControlProblem SolvingGeneral Psychologymedia_commonParenting4. Education05 social sciencesAuthoritarianismSelf-esteem050301 educationGeneral MedicineMiddle AgedSelf ConceptInternal-External ControlSocioeconomic FactorsFemalePsychology0503 educationSocial psychologyStress Psychological050104 developmental & child psychology

description

In order to examine the extent to which parents' levels of education, financial resources, self-esteem, and their mastery-orientation versus task-avoidance are associated with their parenting styles and parental stress, data from two studies were analyzed. In Study I, parents of 105 6 to 7-year old children were asked to fill in scales measuring their parenting styles and parental stress, mastery-orientation, financial resources, and their level of education. In Study II, 235 parents were asked to fill in the same scales. An identical pattern of results was found in the two studies. Parents' self-esteem and their use of mastery-oriented strategy were found to be associated with authoritative parenting and low parental stress, whereas parents' low level of education was related to an authoritarian parenting style. The results further showed that the impact of parents' self-esteem on authoritative parenting and parental stress was partly mediated by their use of a mastery-oriented strategy.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2000-02-05Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9450.404131