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The role of parents' self‐esteem, mastery‐orientation and social background in their parenting styles
Author(s) -
Aunola Kaisa,
Nurmi JariErik,
OnatsuArvilommi Tiina,
Pulkkinen Lea
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.404131
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , parenting styles , self esteem , authoritarianism , child rearing , orientation (vector space) , style (visual arts) , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , politics , political science , law , democracy , archaeology , history
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 thier use of a mastery‐oriented strategy.