The Relationship Between Parenting,College Students’ Self-esteem And Subjective Well-being

Objective: The context inquires parental nurturing style and the influences on collegestudents’ subjective well-bing. Furthermore probes into the functions of self-esteem on thiscondition. It means how parental nurturing style impact self-esteem and subjectivewell-being.Methods:600subjects and their parents are randomly extracted from Hebei NormalUniversity and Chengde National Normal University with the methods of parents cultureevaluation scale (EMBU) and self-esteem scale (SES). overall emotional index scale, andthe SPSS11.9to analysis the result.Consequences: From the independent T-test, the conclusion that undergraduates ofdifferent genders undergo different male fathers’ severe punishment, excessive interfere,preference, refusal, decline or some other factors which may present significant differences.While undergoing mother’s condition, different genders have different results, theself-esteem of female undergraduates are obviously higher than male undergraduates.Parents can treat male or female undergraduates both warmly and understandingly while onsevere punishment, excessive interference, overprotection, denial, preference and otherfactors. Both fathers and mothers tend to be severer to male students. So the conclusion isthat the female undergraduates’ self-esteem are significantly higher than the maleundergraduates’ self-esteem.By the analysis of single factor, we can conclude that the fathers in cities and towns tendto choose warmer ways to treat their children than those in countries. Fathers in citiesinterfere their children more severely than fathers in towns, who are severer than father incountries. Urban fathers are more excessive protection of children than rural fathers.However, there is no obvious differences between them. Mothers are warmer and moreunderstanding, also with more excessive interference and protection. The ruralundergraduates have higher self-esteem than urban undergraduates.By the relevant analysis, too much father’s emotional warmth and understanding andsevere interfere, protection have a significant negative correlation with self-esteem, and sodose female parents, and have no obvious correlation with other factors. Fathers’ upbringing factors----preference and overprotection have no obvious correction withsubjective well-being, and other factors have an obvious correction with subjectivewell-being. Among them penalty, the rigor and refusal, denial have a significant negativecorrelation with subjective well-being, the emotional warmth, understanding and excessiveinterference have a positive correlation with subjective well-being, mother’s upbringingfactors, only excessive interference, protect and preferences have no obvious correctionwith subjective well-being, other factors all have a related relationship with the subjectivewell-being. Among them, denial and punish, refusal have a significant negative correlation,while emotional warmth and understanding have a significant positive correlation,self-esteem and subjective well-being in the level of0.01have a significant correlation withwell-being.By means of regression analysis，the conclusion is father’s emotional warmth,understanding and punish, harsh can directly influence the subjective well-being andinfluence subjective well-being through the self-esteem, father’s excessive interferencedirectly influence the subjective well-being, the decline of just by the means of self-esteeminfluence subjective well-being, while preference and overprotection have no effect onsubjective well-being. Mothers’ emotional warmth and understanding and punish, harsh candirectly affect subjective well-being, also can affect subjective well-being by self-esteem,decline and deny of female parents only by the ways of self-esteem influence subjectivewell-being.Conclusion: We can draw the following conclusion: parental nurturing style haveimportant influence on subjective well-being, and self-esteem working as intermediary rolein this influence.