Parenting Styles and Self-Esteem: A Study of Young Adults with Visual Impairments

Abstract

This exploratory study of young adults with visual impairments examined the relationship between their mothers’ parenting styles—permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian—and the young adults’ self-esteem on the basis of the young adults’ and mothers’ reports. Findings indicated that both young adults’ and mothers’ reports of parenting styles were related to self-esteem.