Self-development during early adolescence: influences of parents and peers. Paper presented on XIth Conference of European Association for Research on Adolescence. Torino, Italy, May 7 - 11. 5. 2008
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | The aim of this study is to find out whether parental influence and peer influence on self-system of younger adolescents are mutually connected or relatively independent. Our previous studies confirm the assumption that perceived parental support /warmth relate, above all, to enhancing global self-esteem. The influence of parental control is more specific; it is present more frequently in girls than in boys and it affects especially the area of self pertaining to perceived acceptance on the part of others. Support/ refusal which adolescents perceive from their peers relate more to the feelings of social competence and attractiveness; however, they also affect their global self-esteem (Macek & Širůček, 2004; Macek & Ježek, 2007). Now we test hypothesis that not only self-esteem but also self-concept in the period of early adolescence are mainly determined by the perception of parental influence and only secondarily also by the presupposed evaluation of their peers. Data from three waves (aged 11, 13, and 15 years, n = 254) of the Czech part of the longitudinal study ELSPAC were used. We measured the perceived parenting style, different aspects of perceived peer support, global self-esteem, stability and clarity of self-concept, and possible selves. The first results have shown that the perceived parental behaviour has more general influence on adolescent self-system than the influence of their peers. Furthermore, the self-system of adolescent girls appears to be more dependent on parents and peers than the self-system of boys. |
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