Abstract
Purpose: This descriptive correlation research aimed to confirm the effect of parents’ parenting attitudes on children’s life satisfaction and the multiple mediating effects of self-esteem and depression in the relationship based on secondary data analysis.Methods: This research used data from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018, which included a total of 2,596 4th grade elementary school children. The IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 25.0 statistical program analyzed the collected data, and the Process Macro Model 6 analyzed the hypothesis test.Results: Children's self-esteem and depression in the relationship between parents' parenting attitude and children's life satisfaction had a simple mediating effect, and a significant sequential mediating effect of self-esteem and depression.Conclusion: In the relationship between parents' parenting attitude and children's life satisfaction, children's self-esteem and depression were confirmed as simple or sequentially mediated and were important variables for increasing or decreasing children's life satisfaction. Particularly, among the parameters, self-esteem had the greatest mediating effect. A follow-up study is needed to confirm the effect on improving children's life satisfaction by developing a parent education program that considers parental parenting attitudes and children's self-esteem and depression.
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