Citation

Kang S, Jeon H, Kwon S, Park S. Percept. Mot. Skills 2015; 120(1): 288-303.

Affiliation

Seoul National University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.2466/10.PMS.120v11x6

PMID

25621525

Abstract

This study examined whether parental attachment mediates the relationship between parental social support and self-esteem in Korean middle and high school athletes. 591 sports athletes attending middle and high schools that specialize in sport volunteered. Parental social support and parental attachment had a significant positive effect on self-esteem; parental attachment had a greater effect on self-esteem. In the structural relationship, direct effects of parental social support on self-esteem were weak, but indirect effects through parental attachment were strong. Therefore, parental attachment complementally mediated the relationship between parental social support and self-esteem. Metric invariance was supported for groups categorized by sex, region, and school level, confirming that the model could be applied to various groups.

Language: en