INTERNALIZATION OF VALUES AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONG BRAZILIAN TEENAGERS FROM AUTHORITATIVE, INDULGENT, AUTHORITARIAN

The relation between parenting styles and adolescent outcomes was analyzed in a sample of 1,198 15-18-year-old Brazilians. The adolescents were classified into 1 of 4 groups (Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful) on the basis of their own ratings of their parents on two dimensions: Acceptance/ Involvement and Strictness/Imposition. The adolescents were then contrasted along two different outcomes: (1) priority given to Schwartz Self-transcendence and Conservation values, and (2) level of Self-esteem (appraised in 5 domains: Academic, Social, Emotional, Family, and Physical). Results showed that Au-thoritative and Indulgent parenting is associated with the highest internaliza-tion of Self-Transcendence and Conservation values of teenagers, whereas Authoritarian parenting is associated with the lowest. On the other hand, adolescents with Indulgent parents have equal or higher levels of Self-esteem than adolescents with Authoritative parents, while adolescents raised in Au-thoritarian and Neglectful homes have the lowest scores in Self-Esteem. This study examines the impact of parental socialization on Brazil-ian teenagers ' self-esteem and their internalization of values. Internal-ization of social values and the development of the child's self-esteem are important objectives in parental socialization (Kochanska, Ak