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Relations among Maternal Parenting Style, Academic Competence, and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Early Adolescents

Candice Y.-W. Leung

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Catherine McBride-Chang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, cmcbride{at}psy.cuhk.edu.hk

Beatrice P.-Y. Lai

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The relations among maternal concern and restrictiveness, self-evaluated academic competence, and life satisfaction were explored in a short-term longitudinal study of 346 7th-grade students (126 males and 220 females) in Hong Kong. The authors found that perceived maternal concern, academic competence, and life satisfaction significantly declined from the beginning to the end of the 7th grade. Mothers viewed themselves as higher in parental concern than adolescents viewed them. Structural equation modeling found that adolescents’ perceived maternal concerns and academic competences significantly predicted life satisfaction over time, whereas perceived maternal restrictiveness did not. The data support the importance of perceived maternal concern and academic competence in predicting early adolescent life satisfaction.

Key Words: parenting style • life satisfaction • Chinese • academic competence • seventh grade

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 24, No. 2, 113-143 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431603262678
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