title: Parental pressure, self-esteem and adolescent reported deviance: bending the twig too far.
abstract: Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior. Adolescents who feel unduly pressured to achieve and succeed in school also are likely to have low self-esteem, to report deviant activity, and to feel they are incapable of reaching the goals set for them by their families.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D012306:Risk; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology