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The relationship of parenting styles with adolescents’ outcomes was analyzed within a sample of Spanish adolescents. A sample of 1456 teenagers from 13 to 16 years of age, of whom 54.3% were females, reported on their parents’ child-rearing practices. The teenagers’ parents were classified into one of four groups (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, or neglectful). The
adolescents were then contrasted on two different outcomes: (1) priority given to Schwartz’s selftranscendence
(universalism and benevolence) and conservation (security, conformity, and tradition)
values and (2) level of self-esteem (appraised in five domains: academic, social, emotional, family
and physical). The results show that Spanish adolescents from indulgent households have the
same or better outcomes than adolescents from authoritative homes. Parenting is related with two
self-esteem dimensions—academic and family—and with all the self-transcendence and conservation
values. Adolescents of indulgent parents show highest scores in self-esteem whereas adolescents
from authoritarian parents obtain the worst results. In contrast, there were no differences between
the priority given by adolescents of authoritative and indulgent parents to any of the selftranscendence
and conservation values, whereas adolescents of authoritarian and neglectful parents,
in general, assign the lowest priority to all of these values.
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