Relationship of Maternal Child-Rearing Behaviors to Children's Self-Esteem

Graybill, Daniel

doi:10.1080/00223980.1978.9923469

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“…Coopersmith (1967), for example, identified maternal warmth, interest, and clearly communicated limit setting with higher levels of selfesteem in a sample of preadolescent boys. Similar findings have been reported over the years by a number of investigators (e.g., Graybill, 1978;Kawash, Kerr, & Clewes, 1985;Miller, 1976;Sears, 1970). A variety of measures and techniques have been employed by these researchers, but it is possible that it is the child's perceptions of interactions with the parents that is the most direct route to understanding this relationship (e.g., Kagan, 1984;Schwarz, BartonHenry, & Pruzinsky, 1985), and in fact some studies have relied on children's reports as a key to estimating the role of parental behaviors in such outcomes.…”

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“…The most compelling has been the role of parental warmth and perceived parental warmth as a significant predictor of the level of children's self-esteem. It appears that the views of others to which Cooley (1902) referred are particularly efficacious in respect to the development of a positive self-regard if they are perceived within a warm and accepting context ( e.g., Coopersmith 1967, Graybill 1978, Kawash et al, 1985. Other reliable predictors have appeared, such as clearly communicated limit setting and appropriate use of disciplinary techniques, but these results have not been as widely reported.…”

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Self-Esteem in Early Adolescence as a Function of Position Within Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

Kawash

Kozeluk

1990

soc behav pers

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so that variations in SEI scores could be examined in this framework. Consistent with expectations, there was systematic covariation between SEI and FACES scores. Mean SEI scores increased monotonically with increases in cohesion, while they varied in a curvilinear fashion with increases in adaptability. This latter pattern was more in line with the theoretical formulations of Olson et al. than the former one. Results of a correlational analysis between SEI scores and the "Distance from the Center" index of Olson et al., were consistent with the view that optimal functioning tended to be found towards the center, that is at moderate overall combined levels of cohesion and adaptability. These results were examined in the light of the relevant parent-child relations literature. It was noted that the most important parallel appeared to be between parental warmth and family cohesion.

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Self-Esteem in Early Adolescence as a Function of Position Within Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

Kawash

Kozeluk

1990

soc behav pers

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“…Care or nurturance are defined as parents' affection, empathy, flexibility and willingness to share experiences with the child; whereas control and overprotection are defined as child-rearing practices designed to control the way the child behaves and feels, including prevention of independent behavior (Parker et al, 1979;Rickel and Biassati, 1982). Relationships have been found between parental nurturance and high self-esteem in children (Graybill, 1978), adolescents (Buri, 1989) and college students (Hopkins and Altman Klein, 1993). Mothers have been found to be more nurturant than fathers (Hopkins and Altman Klein, 1993).…”

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Parental nurturance and identification with own father and mother: the reproduction of nurturant parenting

Ahlberg

Sandnabba

1998

Early Dev. Parent.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of parental identification and role-modeling on parenting in the next generation, with a special focus on fathers. Ninety-four fathers and 130 mothers of five-year-old children completed structured, standardized questionnaires that assessed the subject's child-rearing practices, quality of marriage and perceived parental care and control exerted by their father and mother. Analysis using structural equation modeling revealed that paternal nurturance was significantly affected by received paternal care, as well as by the quality of the subjects own marriage. Maternal nurturance was affected by received maternal care and quality of marriage. It was also found that for fathers, quality of marriage was negatively affected by received paternal control, while for mothers, quality of marriage was negatively affected by received maternal control. For both fathers and mothers, received maternal care affected the quality of marriage positively.

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“…Other factors contributing to women's self-esteem include the degree of maternal identification (Hollender, 1973;Jourard, 1957;Walker, 1982), other non-maternal role models (AImquist & Angrist, 1971;Walker, 1982), and the mother's own self-esteem and sense of competence (Baruch, 1976;Briggs, 1979). Additionally, maternal childrearing behaviors such as maternal acceptance and nurturance, less drastic forms of punishment, and clearly defined and enforced limits of expected behavior seem to promote the development of self-esteem in children (Coopersmith, 1967;Dickstein & Posner, 1978;Graybill, 1978;T.W. Miller, 1975), whereas the use of psychological pressure and control has a negative effect (Graybill, 1978).…”

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The Influence of Mother-Daughter Relationships on Women's Sense of Self and Current Role Choices

Sholomskas

Axelrod

1986

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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This study investigates the relationship of women's current role choices, role satisfaction, and self‐esteem to their perceptions of the earlier relationship with their mothers and to their perceptions of their mothers’ role choices and role satisfaction. Sixty‐seven married women with preschool children were interviewed and completed self‐report inventories. Results indicated that the women's primary role decisions of career, non‐career work, or homemaking did not parallel those of their mothers but was related to their mothers’ messages to them. In addition, career women and women at home reported having more choice in their decisions than did non‐career working women. Women's self‐esteem and role satisfaction were significantly enhanced (p<.05) when the relationship with the mother was perceived as loving and accepting, with low hostility and low psychological control. In contrast, women's self‐esteem and role satisfaction were generally unrelated to the retrospective reports of the mothers’ roles and role satisfaction.

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Relationship of Maternal Child-Rearing Behaviors to Children's Self-Esteem

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Self-Esteem in Early Adolescence as a Function of Position Within Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

Self-Esteem in Early Adolescence as a Function of Position Within Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

Parental nurturance and identification with own father and mother: the reproduction of nurturant parenting

The Influence of Mother-Daughter Relationships on Women's Sense of Self and Current Role Choices

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