This study examined the relationship between parenting styles and practices and the self-esteem of adolescents in middle to late adolescence age from Hebrew-literate Arab-Bedouin families. It aims to inspect this central developmental issue in a culturally traditional Arab sector, where parental authority and the parent-child relationship in the family may differ from western families. The study consisted of parents and their children from 123 Bedouin families, who completed the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ: Robinson et al., 2001), the Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ; Buri, 1991), and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965). The parents’ sample included 71 fathers and 52 mothers, and the adolescents’ sample included 78 boys and 45 girls, whose ages ranged from 14 to 18 with a mean age of 16.00 ± 1.40. Most children reporting on their parents’ parenting styles perceived them as authoritative (about 45%). The parents’ group’s parenting styles varied by their education, as authoritative parents were significantly more educated than non-authoritative parents. The findings indicate that adolescents who perceived their parents’ parenting style as authoritative reported significantly higher self-esteem in comparison to their counterparts who perceived their parents’ parenting style either as authoritarian or permissive. Furthermore, the parents’ reports of their parenting styles accounted for about 30% of the variance in the adolescents’ self-esteem, with the authoritative parenting being the only style associated with high self-esteem and its association with this variable was considerably stronger than those of the non-authoritative parenting styles. Our findings, drawn from separate reports of parents and their descendants, underscore the merits of authoritative parenting in the context of Bedouin adolescents’ self-esteem. Together with other recent evidence, they consolidate the assumption that this style is the cross-culturally preferred style within diverse developmental contexts of children’s well-being.

这项研究调查了来自希伯来语的阿拉伯-贝都因人家庭的父母教养方式和习惯与青少年自尊之间的关系。它的目的是考察阿拉伯文化传统领域的这一中心发展问题，在该部门中，父母的权威和家庭中的亲子关系可能不同于西方家庭。这项研究由来自123个贝都因人家庭的父母及其子女组成，他们完成了《育儿风格和维度问卷》（PSDQ：Robinson等人，2001年），《父母权威问卷》（PAQ； Buri，1991年）和《罗森伯格自尊》。规模（RSES； Rosenberg，1965）。父母的样本包括71位父亲和52位母亲，青少年的样本包括78位男孩和45位女孩，其年龄介于14至18岁之间，平均年龄为16.00±1.40。报告父母的父母养育方式的大多数孩子都认为他们是权威的（约45％）。父母群体的养育方式因受教育程度的不同而不同，因为权威父母的教育程度明显高于非权威父母。研究结果表明，与那些将父母的养育方式视为独裁或宽容的青少年相比，将父母的养育方式视为权威的青少年的自尊水平显着提高。此外，父母的养育方式报告占青少年自尊心变异的30％左右，权威育儿是与高自尊相关的唯一样式，并且与该变量的关联比非权威育儿样式要强得多。我们从父母及其后代的不同报告中得出的发现强调了在贝都因人青少年的自尊心中进行权威育儿的优点。他们与其他最近的证据一起，巩固了这样一种假设，即在儿童福祉的不同发展背景下，这种风格是跨文化偏好的风格。