What if parental love is conditional …? Children's self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous studies have demonstrated that low, unstable, or contingent self-esteem negatively affects youth development and is linked to adolescent psychopathology. However, most previous studies have applied variable-oriented approaches, and less is known about the natural combination of self-esteem facets in school-aged adolescents, how parental conditional regard affects self-esteem profiles, and how these profiles relate to self-kindness, self-judgement, and life satisfaction.

Methods

By employing a longitudinal person-oriented approach (i.e., latent profile analysis and latent transition analysis) on two-wave longitudinal data from 587 German secondary school students (52.3% female, M_age=13.52 years), this study aims to (1) identify adolescents' self

SUBMITTER: Brueckmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10563255 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature