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What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness
Brueckmann, Malin; TEUBER, Ziwen; Hollmann, Jelena et al.
2023In BMC Psychology, 11 (1)
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Keywords :
And latent transition analysis; Latent profile; Life satisfaction; Parenting; Self-compassion; Self-judgement; Adolescent; Child; Female; Humans; Love; Male; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Personal Autonomy; Self Concept; Psychology (all); General Psychology; General Medicine
Abstract :
[en] 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-esteem profiles based on the level, stability, and contingency of self-esteem; (2) examine the impact of parental conditional regard on the self-esteem profiles explained using self-determination theory; and (3) examine these profiles’ relationship with self-kindness, self-judgement, and life satisfaction. Results: Four self-esteem profiles were derived: optimal-secure (~ 8%), good (~ 18%), average (~ 36%), and low-insecure (~ 38%). The results reveal a concerningly high proportion as well as a high stability of low-insecure self-esteem (~ 98%) and indicate the strong negative influence of parental conditional regard on the development of optimal-secure self-esteem. Furthermore, the results demonstrate strong correlations between optimal-secure self-esteem, highly developed self-kindness, and high life satisfaction. Conclusions: Using a longitudinal person-oriented approach, it was possible to identify a group with highly vulnerable self-esteem, characterised by particularly low self-kindness, strong self-judgment, and lower life satisfaction. The findings of this study support the need for prevention and intervention targeting adolescents with low-insecure self-esteem.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Brueckmann, Malin ;  Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
TEUBER, Ziwen  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment
Hollmann, Jelena;  Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Wild, Elke;  Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness
Publication date :
December 2023
Journal title :
BMC Psychology
eISSN :
2050-7283
Publisher :
BioMed Central Ltd
Volume :
11
Issue :
1
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Universität Bielefeld
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