Effect of Parental Resilience on Self Esteem

Abstract

Parental resilience is the ability to gainfully cope with and bounce back from all types of challenges.  Parental psychological well being and self –efficacy, family functioning and social connectedness are playing an important role in parent’s ability to deliver high quality parenting. In addition to these factors, how parent accommodate adversity and find meaning to their everyday life is an important process to understand parental resilience, Payne and Denny et al. (2015). Based on this background researcher attempts to examine the effect of parental resilience on self esteem of adolescent. The self constructed scale of parental resilience was administered. Result of the study revealed that demographic characteristics like education, occupation and income showed significant association with parental resilience. Significant positive correlation was found between resilience of mother and father. Highest percentage of adolescents possesses average range of self esteem. Resilient approaches of fathers and mothers throughout the journey of parenthood found to have a positive relationship with self esteem of adolescents. Two aspects of parental resilience namely problem solving and positive attitude have prominent positive effect on self esteem of adolescents, so based on the scores of these two aspects of parental resilience, the self esteem score of the adolescent can be predicted for a new adolescent sample.