Title:
Parental psychological control and self-esteem in European-American and Asian-American emerging adults
Author:
Diane V. Farber
Thesis Advisor:
Carolyn M. Barry
Committee Member:
Beth A. Kotchick
Committee Member:
Alison Papadakis
Committee Member:
James Buckley
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2015
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
Parenting emerging adults is effective in shaping child outcomes in the extent to which emerging adults recognize that parents still have legitimate authority over their lives. Perception of parental legitimate authority is the extent to which children consider the legitimacy of parental control. The current study used a mediated moderation model to examine the moderating role of legitimate authority between ethnicity, and the relation between perception of psychological control and emerging adult self-esteem. Using a correlational design, the study included 688 undergraduate students (477 women, 209 men, 1 transgender, 1 ?ǣother?ǥ) of Asian-American or Caucasian backgrounds. Responses inquiring about emerging adults' perception of parental legitimate authority and parental psychological control, as well as emerging adults' self-reported self-esteem were subsequently taken. Results indicated partial support of the hypotheses, specifically, that ethnicity moderated the relation between emerging adults' perceived parental psychological control and self-esteem, and that legitimate authority moderated the relation between perceived parental psychological control and self-esteem across all participants. A partial mediation effect of legitimate authority on the relation between parental psychological control and self-esteem was found, indicating that ethnicity plays a role in explaining the relation between psychological control and self-esteem, as does legitimate authority.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
FarberDV-15
