Parent–Child Relationships and Resilience Among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem

Abstract

The present study primarily aimed to examine whether self-esteem serves as a mediator in the associations between parent–child relationships, including parental support and parent–child conflict, and resilience among adolescents. Three hundred and four Chinese adolescents were surveyed with questionnaires and structural equation modeling was adopted to test the mediational hypothesis. The results indicated that the associations between parent–child relationships and adolescent resilience were primarily mediated by self-esteem and that parental support was more robustly linked with adolescent resilience than parent–adolescent conflict. The current study also tested a competitive mediational model in which resilience was the mediator and self-esteem was the outcome variable, and observed that this model was also well-established but inferior to the hypothesized mediational model. These findings extend our insight into the mechanisms underlying the associations among parent–child relationships, self-esteem, and resilience among adolescents and suggest that adolescent resilience promotion programs should focus on improving parental support in a family context and developing individual self-esteem.

Resilience and affect balance of empty‐nest older adults with mild cognitive impairment in poor rural areas of Hunan province, China

“…According to the structural regression model of loneliness, resilience and mental health, the higher level of resilience contributes to less anxiety and depression, and higher perceived well-being level and life quality in the end. 9 Resilience includes acceptance of the disease, the enhanced ability to deal with adverse conditions and regulation of emotions, which can develop an individual ' s cognitive function [27][28][29] . In line with the aforementioned, the present study continues to prove that affect balance promotes the regulation of mental activity, and increases psychological wellbeing by enhancing resilience, which ultimately alleviates MCI progression.…”

The Structural Relationship among Trajectories of Ego-resilience, Neglectful Parenting, Bilingual Competency, and Acculturative Stress of Multicultural Adolescents in South Korea

“…The baseline value of ego-resilience was higher when adolescents perceived low levels of neglectful parenting and high proficiency in their mother's native language. Since positive parental attitudes and involvement are the most powerful factors in enhancing ego-resilience [13,[34][35][36], awareness of the adverse impact of neglectful parenting is crucial in helping parents and adolescents adapt to their communities. Multicultural characteristics such as bilingual competency was also a significant variable in our study.…”

“…Parenting attitudes and parent-child relationships are recognized as significant factors on ego-resilience [13,34] and mental health [35,36] during adolescence. Healthy communication between parents and their children is a form of positive modeling, which allows children to learn to successfully cope with stressful events and to develop effective strategies for stress management [34].…”

“…Healthy communication between parents and their children is a form of positive modeling, which allows children to learn to successfully cope with stressful events and to develop effective strategies for stress management [34]. Additionally, positive parent-child relationships can enhance ego-resilience by increasing adolescents' self-esteem [13].…”

“…Evidently, parenting plays a critical role in the developmental process because it has the most direct and lasting influence on adolescents. Parental affection and concern significantly contribute to adolescents' ego-resilience [12,13], while parental abuse and neglect have negatives effect on adolescent development [14]. Hence, negative parental attitude involving neglectful parenting is defined as a risk factor.…”