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Perceived Family and Peer Transactions and Self-Esteem among Urban Early Adolescents

New York University

Edward Seidman

New York University

Sara Pedersen

New York University

Daniel Chesir-Teran

New York University

LaRue Allen

New York University

J. Lawrence Aber

Columbia University

Valkiria Duran

New York University

JoAnn Hsueh

New York University

This research extends previous work that identified groups of youth characterized by profiles of perceived family and peer transactions. Predictions derived from self-enhancement and self-consistency theories concerning how such transactions might relate to self-esteem in a diverse sample of early adolescents (N = 635) were investigated. Both theories indicate independent contributions of family and peer transactions to self-esteem. The theories differ, however, with regard to implications for how the two microsystems might interrelate in their linkages with self-esteem, with self-enhancement theory implying a moderational model and self-consistency theory a mediational model. As predicted, family and peer profiles each made independent contributions to the prediction of self-esteem. Consistent with self-consistency theory, the relations of family transactions to self-esteem were mediated in part by their associations with peer transactions, with particularly strong linkages evident between qualitatively similar profiles of family and peer experiences. Support for a moderational model, however, was not found.

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