The Interrelations Among the Perception of Parental Styles and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study

Background: this longitudinal study aims to examine the relationships between the perception of parental style,hope,self-esteem and eysenck's psychoticism dimension throughout the span of four years. methods: the sample was composed of 884 students from the wollongong youth study,which commenced when students entered high school. during the course of the 4 years of the study,each participant completed the test booklets each time data was collected. data was analyzed using one way anova,post-hoc test,repeated measurement,pearson and partial correlation and general linear model in order to provide the aims of the study. results: the mean score of hope and self-esteem among adolescents from authoritative parents were higher from permissive and authoritarian families while the hope with a permissive perception were lower than those with authoritarian,and self-esteem was lower in the authoritarian group compared to the permissive group. children with a permissive perception reported higher psychoticism compared to the two other. significant correlations were found between authoritative perception and hope,self-esteem and psychoticism. finally,hope,self-esteem and psychoticism showed a significant inter correlation in all of the parental styles. conclusion: adolescents with the perception of each kind of parental style showed significant between group differences in psychological well-being throughout the four years of the study.