The present study analyzes the relationship between parental socialization practices, acceptance/involvement, and strictness/imposition, and different indicators of adolescent adjustment, taking into account the role of family self-esteem. A sample of 848 Spanish adolescents (54.70% females) ranging in age from 14 to 18 years old (M = 16.11, SD = 1.10) participated in the study. A series of structural equations models (SEMs) were tested to examine the mediational role of family self-esteem in the relationship between parenting practices and the outcome variables that capture adolescent adjustment: emotional instability, antisocial behavior, and academic achievement. The influence of parental practices on adolescent adjustment is expected to take place through family self-esteem. The results showed that the effect of acceptance/involvement and strictness/imposition practices on emotional instability, antisocial behavior, and academic achievement was mediated by family self-esteem. Family self-esteem eliminates the previous direct relationships between parental practices and all the adolescent adjustment variables, except the one between acceptance/involvement and emotional instability, which was reduced but not eliminated. Acceptance/involvement practices positively influence adolescents’ adjustment via family self-esteem, whereas strictness/imposition practices negatively influence adolescents’ adjustment via family self-esteem. This study contributes to clarifying the relationship between parental practices and adolescent adjustment, considering family self-esteem as a mediational variable rather than as an adolescent adjustment indicator. The present findings and their implications for parenting science are discussed.

本研究分析了父母自尊的作用在父母社会化实践，接受/参与，严格/强加以及青少年适应的不同指标之间的关系。年龄在14至18岁之间的848名西班牙青少年（女性占54.70％）的样本（M  = 16.11，SD = 1.10）参加了这项研究。测试了一系列结构方程模型（SEM），以检验家庭自尊在父母行为与捕获青少年适应的结果变量之间的关系中的中介作用：情绪不稳定，反社会行为和学习成绩。父母行为对青少年适应的影响预计将通过家庭自尊来实现。结果表明，接受/参与和严格/强加做法对情绪不稳定，反社会行为和学习成绩的影响是由家庭自尊介导的。家庭自尊消除了父母行为与所有青少年适应变量之间的先前直接关系，除了接受/参与和情绪不稳定之间的联系之外，减少但没有消除。接受/参与的做法通过家庭自尊对青少年的适应产生积极影响，而严格/强加的做法通过家庭自尊对青少年的适应产生负面影响。这项研究有助于澄清父母行为与青少年适应之间的关系，并将家庭自尊作为中介变量而不是青少年适应指标。讨论了目前的发现及其对育儿科学的影响。这项研究有助于澄清父母行为与青少年适应之间的关系，并将家庭自尊作为中介变量而不是青少年适应指标。讨论了目前的发现及其对育儿科学的意义。这项研究有助于澄清父母行为与青少年适应之间的关系，并将家庭自尊作为中介变量而不是青少年适应指标。讨论了目前的发现及其对育儿科学的影响。