Parent–adolescent communication and Chinese adolescents’ self-esteem: A cross-lagged model
We investigated the reciprocal relationship between parent–adolescent communication and adolescents’ self-esteem with a sample of 296 Chinese junior middle school students over a course of approximately 3 months, using an autoregressive cross-lagged model. The results showed
that both parent–adolescent communication and adolescent self-esteem had invariant autoregressive effects over the 3 months. In addition, parent–adolescent communication had a significant crosslagged effect on adolescent self-esteem and vice versa, indicating reciprocal effects
between parent–adolescent communication and adolescent self-esteem over time. Our findings suggest that multilevel intervention incorporating individual counseling and family intervention is more effective in improving parent–adolescent communication and adolescent self-esteem
than either individual counseling or family intervention alone.
Keywords: adolescence; adolescents’ self-esteem; family intervention; individual counseling; parent–adolescent communication
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, People’s Republic of China 2: Department of Educational Science, Hunan First Normal University, People’s Republic of China
Publication date: 22 October 2019
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