Parent- Child Relationship and Its Effect on Adolescents’ Self-Esteem

Abstract

The parent-child relationship has a major influence on adolescent self-esteem. Low self-esteem in adolescence is linked to a variety of emotional and behavioural issues. Better communication, suitable parenting style, respect, trust, and understanding are all characteristics of a good parent-child connection. Building a positive parent-child relationship is important since it influences a child’s self-esteem in later adolescence. This study focuses on understanding the effect of parent-child relationship on adolescents’ self-esteem. Primarily, two factors are studied- parenting style and parent- child communication that play a contributing role in adolescents’ self-esteem. The findings showed that parents that have a more accepting and less controlling relationship with their children raise their children’s self-esteem and good communication favours positive self-esteem in adolescents