Dear all,
Have a nice day. I am studying father's and mother's punishment on teenagers' self esteem and social anxiety. I hypothesized that self-esteem as a mediator in the relationships between fathers/mothers and social anxiety. I conducted mediation analysis as attached in the picture. I found that self-esteem partially mediated father/mother influence on social anxiety. However, when I combined both parents in the model (the third model), why the direct effect of father towards social anxiety changed to insignificant and negatively related to social anxiety? Thanks in advance.
PS: Initial findings show that mother have higher influence on social anxiety while father have higher influence on self-esteem.
At first pass it sounds like the unique contribution of father is different after controlling for mother. Makes sense to me, because mother and father contribution will be correlated as they are the parents of the same child. The question I might pursue would be, does it make sense theoretically that mother would be the more important factor than father? And why does controlling for mother eliminate the relationship with father?
Dear Mark Mills, I am very grateful by receiving your precise comments. From existing evidence, the influence of parents is inconsistent, In some settings, fathers are more influential but in others not. I also concern about why after controlling for mothers, the once significant father influence disappear. As the c' close to zero, the relationship between father punishment and social anxiety is full mediated by self-esteem. But, in fact, full mediation hardly occurs.
Dear Nam,
I studied father's and mother's importance for leukemic children. Mother had a much stronger connection and importance for the sick child. This is natural, she had the child in her body, she breastfed the child, she is much closer to him/her from the very beginning.
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Dear Nam,
It is obvious, the mother or rather, women are basically emotionally-charged whereas men are known to be very practical in all situations.
Therefore your findings are not only logical but most appropriate given that the sentiment is gender-centric and still cultural-based.
Punishing the child by using self-esteem as a mediated force is not a good solution. That is the reason why the father retract when such mediation involves the social spectrum. He would not be involved in the social anxiety because of his masculine and fraternal image. While it is alright to do so within the house parameter, to expose the child and himself together with his wife extreme social anxiety is one that he would not swallow, let alone chew.
That is why no matter how you try to push the social anxiety agenda under the pretext of self-esteem would always yield a negative response because it is never good to wash your dirty linen in the public.
Best regards - Mariam
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