What Can Parents do to Minimize Adolescent Failure Anticipation?
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2020-07-03
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In this study it was investigated if self-esteem has a mediating role between positively
associated parenting behaviors like parents’ trust, parental warmth, and constructive problem
solving, and failure anticipation. Longitudinal data from “The 10 to 18 Study” was used,
participants were students attending public schools in a city in central Sweden. Data from 225
Swedish children (45.3% boys and 54.7% girls) between the age of 12 to 15 years (M = 13.01,
SD = .21) were analyzed. The results showed that the parenting measures parents’ trust,
parental warmth, and constructive problem solving are significantly positive related to self esteem and significantly negative related to failure anticipation. All three mediation models
showed significant negative indirect effects on failure anticipation via self-esteem. This
indicates that self-esteem has a mediating role between parents’ trust, parental warmth, and
constructive problem and the outcome failure anticipation. For example, more parents’ trust is
related to more self-esteem, which in turn, is related to less failure anticipation. Strengths,
limitations, and implications of the study, as well as suggestions for further research are
discussed.
Key words: parents’ trust, parental warmth, constructive problem solving, self-esteem
failure anticipation
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