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PARENTAL COLLABORATIVE DECISION-MAKING AND CHILDREN'S SELF-ESTEEM AND LOCUS OF CONTROL
| Title: | PARENTAL COLLABORATIVE DECISION-MAKING AND CHILDREN'S SELF-ESTEEM AND LOCUS OF CONTROL |
| Author: | Cheng, Li-hsueh |
| Description: | The main concern of this study is how parental decision-making style affects children’s self-esteem and locus of control. A secondary longitudinal study was employed to investigate how parental decision-making style, which was broken into three categories – collaborative, independent, and autocratic – affects children’s self-esteem and locus of control. Sex and ethnicity were also examined for their effects on parental decision-making style as well as on self-esteem and locus of control. The results showed that, contrary to what I predicted, the more frequent the use of independent decision-making relative to collaborative decision-making, the lower the child's self-esteem and locus of control. However, as I predicted, the more frequent the use of autocratic decision-making relative to collaborative decision-making, the lower the child's self-esteem and locus of control. It was also found that sex and ethnicity interact in their effect on parental decision-making style. White male adolescents are more likely than White females to have either independent decision-making or autocratic decision-making relative to collaborative decision-making. Asian male and female adolescents have no apparent differences in parental decision-making styles. Asian female adolescents are more likely than White female adolescents to show both independent and autocratic decision-makings relative to collaborative decision-making. White male adolescents are more likely than Asian male adolescents to have independent decision-making relative to collaborative decision-making. White male adolescents and Asian male adolescents show no differences in the frequency of autocratic decision-making relative to collaborative decision-making. Male adolescents have a higher level of self-esteem than female adolescents, while female adolescents have a higher level of internal locus of control than male adolescents. No differences were found in White Americans’ and Asian Americans’ self-esteem or locus of control. Limitations and applications were also discussed. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin976031674
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/9966 |
| Date: | 2000 |
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