High School Students Self-esteem And Parental Rearing

The ways of parental rearing practices have a significant infuence on the formation and development of their children' self-esteem. In this essay, experiments will be conducted, in which 200 students in one senior middle school in Shangqiu City, Henan Province, will be focused. Through the reports of students on their parents' upbringing and the situation of their own self-respect, the upbringings of senior middle school students' parents, senior students' self-exteem, and the influence of parental rearing practices on their children's self-exteem will be explored in this essay.Questionnaires and the quantitative statistics analysis are the main methods in this reserach, and the EMBU and SES will be employed to measure. Also, software of SPSS10.0 will be applied to take the t-test, correlational analysis, variance analysis and the analysis of multivariate regression.The conclusion of this research is be indicated in the following:1. No obvious sexual difference exists in senior middle school students' self-esteem, but obvious grade difference does. There is no obvious difference in self-esteem between only children and their counterparts.2. For all fatherly factors in the ways of parental rearing, excessive interference factor of boys scores higher than that of girls; however, for all motherly factors, no remarkable difference exists scores of all factors between boys and girls.3. Self-esteem of senior middle school students has obviously positive correlation with factors of fatherly affection, understanding, and preference tested in the parental rearing practices, while it has visibly negative correlation with factors of fatherly chastisement, sternness, refusal, denial and overprotection. Self-esteem of students has obviously correlation with factors of motherly affection, understanding, and preference tested, while it has visibly negative correlation with factors of motherly refusal, chastisement and sternness.4. Self-esteem of only children has obviously positive correlation with factors of affection, understanding, refusal and denial in parental rearing practices and it has no remarkable correlation with other factors. Self-esteem of non only children has obviously positive correlation with parental affection and understanding, but it has remarkably negative correlation with fatherly chastisement, sternness, refusal and denial, and motherly over interference, protection, refusal, denial and chastisement.5. Obvious difference exists in parental affection and chastisement between higher self-esteem students and lower self-esteem students.