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Parental Self-Efficacy and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: The Mediating Role of Parental Punishment and School Engagement

The relation of parental self-efficacy and adolescents’ school engagement to adolescents’ antisocial behavior is still empirically underexplored. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine direct and serial indirect, through parental punishment and adolescents’ school engagement, effects of parental self-efficacy on adolescents’ antisocial behavior. Data used in the paper are collected in a two- wave longitudinal study conducted within the research project „Parents’ work, family economic hardship and well-being of parents and children”. In this paper, only data collected from 193 adolescents (120 girls) and their parents are used. Adolescents completed the Self-Reported Risk and Antisocial Behavior Scale (Vrselja, Sučić, & Franc, 2009), the School Engagement Measure (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, Friedel, & Paris, 2005), and the Punishment Subscale of the Parenting Behavior Questionnaire (Keresteš et al., 2012). Mothers and fathers completed the Parental Self- Efficacy Subscale of the Parental Competence Scale (Keresteš, Brković, & Kuterovac Jagodić, 2011). Process macro (Hayes, 2012) for SPSS was used to test the proposed direct and indirect effects. The results showed that paternal, unlike maternal, self-efficacy had a direct effect on adolescents’ antisocial behavior. Lower self-efficacy in fathers contributed positively to more pronounced antisocial behavior in adolescents. Further, maternal self-efficacy had an indirect effect, through the maternal use of harsh punishment and lower adolescents’ behavioral school engagement, on adolescents’ antisocial behavior. There were no significant indirect effects of maternal and paternal self-efficacy on adolescents’ antisocial behavior in models with emotional and cognitive school engagement as mediators. The findings of the study point to different mechanisms by which maternal and paternal self- efficacy and adolescents’ school engagement can contribute to adolescents’ antisocial behavior.

parental self-efficacy, parental punishment, school engagement, antisocial behavior

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