Self-Efficacy and Physical Self-Concept as Mediators of Parenting Influence on Adolescents' School and Health Wellbeing

Abstract

The current study examines the role of parenting styles (permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian) in predicting adolescents' school and health wellbeing through the mediational role of adolescents' academic self-efficacy and physical self-concept. Data were collected from 1599 Omani adolescents (mean age = 17.50, SD = 1.02, males = 783, females = 816). These were analyzed using EQS Structural Equation Modeling. Results suggest that authoritative and permissive parenting styles are effective in predicting adolescents' school wellbeing directly and indirectly through academic self-efficacy. Likewise, the same two parenting styles predicted health wellbeing directly and indirectly through physical self-concept. Outcomes differed based on maternal and paternal parenting styles. Findings are discussed within a cultural context.