Adolescents’ Daily Experience of Fathers’ Emotional Support and Self‐Evaluation in Korea

Abstract

Recently, fathers’ role in children's development has been recognized internationally. In Asian countries, similar conversations have emerged but there has been a lack of empirical studies that considered the unique cultural contexts. As a response, based on Bronfenbrenner's process‐person‐context‐time model, the present study examined the daily dynamics and individual differences in the experience of fathers’ emotional support and self‐evaluation in social roles among 283 Korean adolescents in 5th and 8th grade. Through Hierarchical Linear Modeling, within‐person associations between adolescents’ experience of fathers’ emotional support and self‐evaluation in social roles on the same day and the next day were found, with individual differences by grade level and family affluence. Theoretical and practical implications within the relevant cultural context are discussed.

Good can be stronger than bad: the daily relationship among maternal warmth, mother-teen conflict and adolescents’ self-esteem

“…We found teenagers with higher subjective SES showed higher self-esteem, which is consistent with the popular notion reported by large-sample study (Kiviruusu et al, 2014). However, our findings showed that subjective SES did not moderate the relationship between mother-teen interactions and adolescents' self-esteem, unlike the moderating effect of financial condition on the association between fathers' emotional support and teenagers' self-evaluation in roles reported by previous studies (Cheon & Chung, 2020). The pattern between mother-teen interactions and teenagers' self-esteem also appears consistent across teenagers' gender, suggesting that mother-teen interactions have the same role in girls' and boys' self-esteem.…”

“…In addition to person-level characteristics, social context in which individuals grow up may also cause variations in the relationship of proximal processes and development outcomes. For instance, Cheon and Chung (2020) found a greater sensitivity to fathers' emotional support among teenagers in less affluent family than more affluent family. The current study hypothesized a similar pattern that adolescents who perceive higher subjective socioeconomic status (SES) might show less self-esteem fluctuations due to interactions with mother.…”

“…Based on PPCT model, we predicted that maternal warmth was related to self-esteem positively and motherteen conflict was related to self-esteem negatively. Considering that daily experiences can spill over to the next day (Cheon & Chung, 2020), we further hypothesized the warmth and conflict teenagers perceived might be able to predict their next-day self-esteem. And person-level characteristics and context-level factor like age, gender and subjective SES might regulate the associations between daily mother-teen interactions and adolescents' self-esteem.…”