Adolescent appraisals of family security as a mediator of the effect of family instability on adolescent self-esteem (CROSBI ID 192156)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Merkaš, Marina
engleski
Adolescent appraisals of family security as a mediator of the effect of family instability on adolescent self-esteem
The aim of this two-wave study was to examine the mediating role of adolescent appraisals of family security in the relation between family instability and adolescent self-esteem in a sample of 377 adolescents and their mothers. Mothers’ reports of family instability at Time 1 were significantly and positively associated with adolescent appraisals of family insecurity at Time 1 and Time 2. Adolescent self-esteem at Time 2 was significantly and negatively related to family instability at T1 and family insecurity at Time 1 and Time 2. Findings from structural equation models supported the hypothesis that family instability undermines adolescents’ self-esteem one year later by directly threatening adolescents’ appraisals of family as a safe and secure system. The results indicated that adolescent appraisals fully mediated the relation between family instability and adolescent self-esteem. The implications of the findings for adolescent development in secure and stable family environment are discussed and suggestions for further process-oriented research on the relation between family instability and adolescent development are stated.
family instability ; security in the family system ; self-esteem ; adolescence
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Podaci o izdanju
23 (1)
2014.
47-66
objavljeno
1330-0288
10.5559/di.23.1.03