Research On The Relationship Among Parental Rearing Patterns,Self-esteem And Indecision Of College Students

To explore the influence of College students’ parental rearing patterns and self-esteem on indecision, some research on parental rearing patterns, self-esteem and indecision are carried out. The two different kinds of high self-esteem in the research defensive high self-esteem and genuine self-esteem are distinguished by Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirablility Scale(MCSD). And then, the characteristics on indecision of subjects with different kinds of high self-esteem are attempted to be discovered by the research in this paper.The research are based on cross-sectional study design. Eight hundred subjects are chosen from six colleges in Chengdu by a method of stratified random sampling and the questionnaire survey of the research are mainly based on Indecision Scale, Parental Bonding Intrument(PBI), Self-Esteem Scale(SES) and Marlowe- Crowne Social Desirablility Scale(MCSD).The research conclusions are:(1)Overall, college students’ parental rearing patterns, self-esteem and indecision generally show a satisfied level. Defensive high self-esteem shows lower level of indecision than genuine self-esteem. Besides, parents whose children are subjects with defensive high self-esteem shows advantageous parental rearing patterns than that whose children are subjects with genuine self-esteem.(2)There are correlations among college students’ parental rearing patterns, self-esteem and indecision.(3)In general, parental rearing patterns shows a significant predictive influence on college students’ self-esteem level and indecision while the rearing patterns that come from fathers shows more predictive influence. Among male college students, the parental rearing patterns that come from mothers shows more influence on their self-esteem level and indecision than that come from fathers. But the cases is different among female college students, rearing patterns that come from fathers shows more significant influence on their self-esteem level and indecision than that come from mothers.(4)College students’ self-esteem plays a partial intermediation role between parental rearing patterns and indecision. Nevertheless, the subjects with defensive high self-esteem or genuine self-esteem shows nothing to do with the intermediation between parental rearing patterns and indecision.