Adolescent appraisals of family security as a mediator of the effect of family instability on adolescent self-esteem/Procjene adolescenta o sigurnosti u obitelj kao medijator ucinka obiteljske nestabilnosti na samopostovanje adolescenta

• Published in: Društvena istraživanja Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 47
• Main Author: Merkas, Marina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut Drustvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar 01-03-2014
• Subjects: Family life; Self-esteem; Self-perception in adolescence; Croatia
• ISSN: 1330-0288
• DOI: 10.5559/di.23.1.03

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 atT1 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 a 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. Keywords: family instability, security in the family system, self-esteem, adolescence Cilj ovog istrazivanja, koje je temeljeno na podatcima prikupljenima u dvije vremenske tocke, bio je ispitati medijacijsku ulogu samoprocjene sigurnosti adolescenta u obitelj u odnosu izmedu obiteljske nestabilnosti i samopostovanja adolescenata na uzorku od 377 adolescenata i njihovih majki. Majcine procjene obiteljske nestabilnosti u prvoj vremenskoj tocki bile su znacajno pozitivno povezane s adolescentovim procjenama nesigurnosti u obitelj u prvoj i drugoj vremenskoj tocki. Adolescentovo samopostovanje u drugoj vremenskoj tocki znacajno je negativno povezano s obiteljskom nestabilnosti u prvoj vremenskoj tocki i nesigurnosti u obitelji u prvoj i drugoj vremenskoj tocki. Nalazi testiranja modela strukturalnih jednadzbi dali su potvrdu postavljene hipoteze--obiteljska nestabilnost umanjuje adolescentovo samopostovanje nakon godine dana, izravno ugrozavajuci percepciju adolescenta o obitelji kao sigurnom i zasticujucem sustavu. Rezultati pokazuju da procjene adolescenta potpuno posreduju u odnosu obiteljske nestabilnosti i adolescentskoga samopostovanja. U radu su raspravljene implikacije nalaza za adolescentski razvoj u sigurnoj i stabilnoj obiteljskoj okolini i iznesene su sugestije za buduca procesno orijentirana istrazivanja odnosa obiteljske nestabilnosti i adolescentskog razvoja. Kljucne rijeci: obiteljska nestabilnost, sigurnost u obiteljski sustav, samopostovanje, adolescencija