Australian Adolescents' Perceptions of their Parents

Abstract

We examined the characteristics of a self-report measure for assessing perceptions of parents, the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), in an adolescent community sample (N = 2,147; mean age = 15.4 years). Using factor analysis, three PBI dimensions were identified--the original Care factor and two Protection factors: perceived social control and personal intrusiveness. Important sex differences were found which were not evident in the two factor structure recommended by Parker [1,2]. Relative to sons, daughters saw their fathers as more personally intrusive and their mothers as less socially controlling and much more caring. Overall, adolescents perceived mothers as more caring but more personally intrusive than fathers. Adolescents who saw their father as uncaring and their mother as controlling tended to have the least positive psychosocial profiles.

Parental Attachment Among Korean–American Adolescents

“…Parental control showed a significantly negative correlation with self-esteem and a positive correlation with depression, but at small strength. This result might have been caused by the inconsistency of the PBI control subscale discussed in the literature (Cubis et al 1989;Murphy et al 1997). The factor structure of the control subscale may need to be investigated among KoreanAmerican adolescent samples in the future.…”

“…PBI has been used mostly among adult populations (Chambers et al 2000;Cox et al 2000;Kendler 1996;Narita et al 2000;Reese et al 2002). However, similar effects on adolescent populations have been found in Australia (Cubis et al 1989;Parker et al 1979), Israel (Canetti et al 1997), Norway (Pedersen 1994), Canada (McFarlane et al 1995), Japan (Sato et al 1997), and Scotland (Biggam and Power 1998).…”

“…Thus, it is important to determine the differences and similarities between Korean-American children and children from a different cultural heritage. The present study compared the mean scores of parental bonding subscales with two previous studies, which examined Australian (Cubis et al 1989) and Israeli (Canetti et al 1997) adolescent groups. In addition, the current study examined the relationship between PBI subscales (Parental Control and Parental Care) and mental health factors such as self-esteem, social support, and depression and further investigated the relationship between parenting styles and mental health measures.…”

“…Table 1 presents the means and standard deviations of the different mental health measures along with the means of the PBI. Table 2 shows that the comparison of the mean PBI scores of Korean-American adolescents with Israeli adolescents reported by Cubis et al (1989) and Australian adolescents from Canetti et al (1997) study. Korean-American adolescents in the current study sample showed a care score (23.77) similar to the Israeli sample (22.53-24.76) but lower than the Australian sample (27.57-29.96).…”

Ich bin glücklicher, wenn ihr mir helft, selbst Entscheidungen zu treffen – Zufriedenheit und Zukunftserwartungen von Siebzehnjährigen (2006-2013)

“…Für die Bindung zu den Eltern zeigten sich keine Unterschiede zwischen Jungen und Mäd-chen. Während für die klassische Bindungstheorie (Ainsworth 1989) die Bindung zur Mutter der stärkste Prädiktor für späteres Selbstwertgefühl und damit indirekt auch für die Lebenszufriedenheit ist, sehen andere Studien vor allem für Jungen eine stärkere Bedeutung des Vaters für die Entwicklung des Selbstwertgefühls (Cubis et al 1989).…”