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A Study of Parent-Child Relationship on Adolescents Self-Esteem


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1 Department of Psychology, National PG College, Lucknow, India
2 Department of Psychology, National PG College, Lucknow, UP, India
     

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Self-esteem is a disposition that a person has which represents their judgments of their own worthiness. For children, in particular, the environment in which they are raised and the relationship they are having with their parents makes a lot of difference in their own personal worth as being children through the eyes of the parents, they know what they really are which in turn helps them to adapt better to society. The present statdy's aim was to study parent child relationship among adoloscents self-esteem. Parental acceptance and rejection is the warmth dimension of parenting if the child's self- esteem is boosted up and if it is lacking in some aspect then what could be the consequences. The sample of the study was 30 adoloscents, the tools used were self-esteem scale by Rosenberg and parent-child relationship scale by Dr Nalini Rao it was hypothesized that there will be positive relationship between parent child relationship and child's self-esteem with the help of correlational design and as well as t-testing, wherein the result came out to be similar to the hypothesis and significant difference was seen between father and mother's relationship with child and positive relationship between parent child relationship and child's self-esteem.

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Self-Esteem, Parent-Child Relationship, Adolescents.
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Authors

Teena Variamparampil
Department of Psychology, National PG College, Lucknow, India
Nehashree Srivastava
Department of Psychology, National PG College, Lucknow, UP, India

Abstract


Self-esteem is a disposition that a person has which represents their judgments of their own worthiness. For children, in particular, the environment in which they are raised and the relationship they are having with their parents makes a lot of difference in their own personal worth as being children through the eyes of the parents, they know what they really are which in turn helps them to adapt better to society. The present statdy's aim was to study parent child relationship among adoloscents self-esteem. Parental acceptance and rejection is the warmth dimension of parenting if the child's self- esteem is boosted up and if it is lacking in some aspect then what could be the consequences. The sample of the study was 30 adoloscents, the tools used were self-esteem scale by Rosenberg and parent-child relationship scale by Dr Nalini Rao it was hypothesized that there will be positive relationship between parent child relationship and child's self-esteem with the help of correlational design and as well as t-testing, wherein the result came out to be similar to the hypothesis and significant difference was seen between father and mother's relationship with child and positive relationship between parent child relationship and child's self-esteem.

Keywords


Self-Esteem, Parent-Child Relationship, Adolescents.