• DOI:10.2466/pr0.1992.71.2.535
• Corpus ID: 37260066

Stability of Parental Nurturance as a Salient Predictor of Self-Esteem

@article{Buri1992StabilityOP,
  title={Stability of Parental Nurturance as a Salient Predictor of Self-Esteem},
  author={John R. Buri and Patrick Murphy and L M Richtsmeier and K K Komar},
  journal={Psychological Reports},
  year={1992},
  volume={71},
  pages={535 - 543}
}

• J. Buri, P. Murphy, +1 author K. K. Komar
• Published 1 October 1992
• Psychology
• Psychological Reports

The relationship of parental nurturance to self-esteem for seven distinct adolescent and early-adulthood age groups (N = 784) was investigated. Analysis showed that even though mothers' and fathers' nurturance together were more strongly related to self-esteem during the junior high school years (R2 values >50% were obtained in each of the junior high samples) than during the high school and college years (R2 values < 40% were obtained in each of these samples), parental nurturance still remained a robust predictor of self-esteem during these latter years. These results were discussed within the context of (a) the stability at different ages of the bases upon which one's judgments of self-esteem are made, and (b) parental nurturance as a stabilizing influence during the transitional years of adolescence and early adulthood.