See me through my eyes: Adolescent-parent agreement in personality predicts later self-esteem development.

ABSTRACT: Achieving a clear view of one's personality is a challenging but crucial developmental task during adolescence, which has enduring influences. This task might be harder if significant others see individuals differently from how the adolescents see themselves. Supporting this, the looking-glass-self theory suggests that significant others constitute a social mirror into which the individual gazes to form his/her self-view. The present study was the first to longitudinally examine whether self-other agreement in personality during adolescence (i.e., self-parent and self-friend agreement at age 12 and self-mother and self-father agreement at age 17) promote self-esteem development from age 17 to 29 years (N =186, 53% boys). Results for girls consistently confirmed the hypothesized bene

SUBMITTER: Luan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734374 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature