J Korean Soc Matern Child Health.  2022 Oct;26(4):234-244. 10.21896/jksmch.2022.26.4.234.

Effect of Parents' Parenting Attitudes on Children's Life Satisfaction: Multiple Mediating Effects of Children's Self-Esteem and Depression -Using Data From the 2018 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey-

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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.21896/jksmch.2022.26.4.234

Abstract

Purpose
This descriptive correlation research aimed to confirm the effect of parents’ parenting attitudes on children’s life satisfaction and the multiple mediating effects of self-esteem and depression in the relationship based on secondary data analysis.
Methods
This research used data from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018, which included a total of 2,596 4th grade elementary school children. The IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 25.0 statistical program analyzed the collected data, and the Process Macro Model 6 analyzed the hypothesis test.
Results
Children's self-esteem and depression in the relationship between parents' parenting attitude and children's life satisfaction had a simple mediating effect, and a significant sequential mediating effect of self-esteem and depression.
Conclusion
In the relationship between parents' parenting attitude and children's life satisfaction, children's self-esteem and depression were confirmed as simple or sequentially mediated and were important variables for increasing or decreasing children's life satisfaction. Particularly, among the parameters, self-esteem had the greatest mediating effect. A follow-up study is needed to confirm the effect on improving children's life satisfaction by developing a parent education program that considers parental parenting attitudes and children's self-esteem and depression.

Figure

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  Fig. 1. A model of a children's life satisfaction according to the parenting attitude of the parents. →, The influence of variables is statistically significant. –>, The influence of variables is not statistically significant. The panel survey of negative parenting attitude and depression was reverse-coded and used as a measure.

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