Pawlak J L, Klein H A
Department of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.
J Genet Psychol. 1997 Sep;158(3):303-13. doi: 10.1080/00221329709596670.
Previous research has supported the hypothesis that high levels of marital conflict are related to lower self-esteem in children. In this study, 122 young adults completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire and the Student Interparental Conflict Scale, as well as the Parental Nurturance Scale and the Parental Authority Questionnaire. One parent of each young adult completed the Parent Interparental Conflict Scale, the O'Leary-Porter Overt Hostility Scale, and a modified Parental Authority Questionnaire. Perceived interparental conflict and parental style discrepancies in nurturance and in authoritarianism were significantly and negatively related to self-esteem, but the best predictors of self-esteem were the parental styles themselves. Warm, nurturant parents were more likely to have high self-esteem children and demonstrated less conflict in marital partnerships. Correlations between marital conflict and self-esteem may reflect parental characteristics.
先前的研究支持了这样一种假设，即高水平的婚姻冲突与儿童较低的自尊有关。在这项研究中，122名年轻人完成了罗森伯格自尊问卷、学生父母间冲突量表，以及父母养育量表和父母权威问卷。每位年轻人的一位家长完成了父母间冲突量表、奥利里-波特公开敌意量表，以及一份经过修改的父母权威问卷。感知到的父母间冲突以及父母在养育和专制方面的风格差异与自尊显著负相关，但自尊的最佳预测因素是父母的风格本身。温暖、有养育能力的父母更有可能拥有高自尊的孩子，并且在婚姻关系中表现出较少的冲突。婚姻冲突与自尊之间的相关性可能反映了父母的特征。
