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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Developmental Psychology
Volume 14 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1292718
This article is part of the Research Topic

The Effect of Parenting on Child and Adolescence Development

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Effect of Parental Rearing Styles on Adolescent Ego Identity: The Mediating Role of Involutionary Attitudes

Sun Changan1 Ding Yan1*
  • 1School of Education,Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China

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Previous studies have found that negative parental rearing styles can negatively predict the acquisition of ego identity, while it hasn't been discussed whether the overcompetitive attitudes, a stable personality, will further hinder their ego identity development under the model of educational involutionary. The study used the Overcompetitive Attitude Scale, the Brief Parental Rearing Styles Questionnaire, and the Ego Identity Status Scale to investigate 550 young students in a school in Suzhou in order to explore the influence of parental rearing styles on adolescents' ego identity development and the role of involutional attitudes. The results showed that:(1) Adolescents' overcompetitive attitude was positively predicted by parental rejection and overprotection, while it was negatively predicted by parental emotional warmth. (2) Parental emotional warmth significantly predicted adolescents' ego identity status more favorably than parental rejection, overprotection, and overcompetitive attitude. (3) Overcompetitive attitude plays a partial intermediary role between parental rearing style and ego identity.

Keywords: Adolescent, involution, overcompetitive attitude, Parental rearing styles, Ego identity

Received: 12 Sep 2023; Accepted: 31 Dec 2023.

Copyright: © 2023 Changan and Yan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Miss. Ding Yan, School of Education,Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China