Department of Sociology, Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), 10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Research on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Karlstad University, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden.
Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/ Karolinska Institutet, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Public Health. 2017 Aug;149:106-112. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.04.009. Epub 2017 Jun 6.
Parental support has been shown to be important for children's self-esteem, which in turn is related to later important life outcomes. Today, an increasing number of children in the Western world spend time in both the parents' respective households after a separation. Children who live with both parents report more parental support than children who live only with one parent after a divorce. We took the opportunity of the commonness of children sharing their time between their parents' homes in Sweden to investigate children's self-esteem in relation to family type.
With nationally representative survey data (ULF) collected from both parents and children, we analyze differences in children's self-esteem among 4823 10-18 year olds in nuclear families, joint physical custody and those living mostly or only with one parent after a separation using ordinary least squares regression, adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
We found no significant difference in self-esteem between children who lived equally much with both parents, mostly with one parent and those in nuclear families, whereas children in single care showed lower self-esteem compared with children in the other living arrangements. The difference was not explained by socioeconomic factors.
The self-esteem of children who share their time between their parent's respective homes after a separation does not deviate from that in their peers in nuclear families. Instead, those in single care reported lower self-esteem than those in the other living arrangements. These differences were not explained by socioeconomic factors. Longitudinal studies are needed to establish pre- and post-separation family characteristics that influence self-esteem and well-being in young people.
父母的支持已被证明对孩子的自尊心很重要，而自尊心又与日后重要的生活结果有关。如今，越来越多的西方世界的孩子在父母离婚后会在父母各自的家中度过一段时间。与只与父母一方生活的孩子相比，与父母双方生活在一起的孩子报告说得到了更多的父母支持。我们利用瑞典孩子在父母家之间共同度过时间的普遍性，调查了家庭类型与孩子自尊心之间的关系。
我们利用从父母和孩子那里收集到的具有全国代表性的调查数据（ULF），通过普通最小二乘法回归，根据人口统计学和社会经济特征，分析了核心家庭、共同监护权以及离婚后主要或仅与父母一方生活的 4823 名 10-18 岁儿童的自尊心差异。
我们发现，与主要与父母一方生活和核心家庭的孩子相比，与父母双方平等生活、主要与父母一方生活的孩子的自尊心没有显著差异，而单亲照顾的孩子的自尊心比其他生活安排的孩子低。这种差异不是由社会经济因素解释的。
在父母离婚后在父母各自的家中度过时间的孩子的自尊心与核心家庭的同龄人没有差异。相反，单亲照顾的孩子报告的自尊心比其他生活安排的孩子低。这些差异不是由社会经济因素解释的。需要进行纵向研究，以确定影响年轻人自尊心和幸福感的婚前和婚后家庭特征。
