Parental Bonding, Self-Esteem and Peer Acceptance in Father-Absent Male Adolescents

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SynopsisResearch findings concerned with parental bonding, self-esteem and peer acceptance in 46 father-absent male adolescents aged 13–15 years and a matched group f r om intact families are reported. Boys from families where the father was absent through divorce or separation were lower in self-esteem and saw their parents, especially the mother, as less caring and more overprotective than did their peers from intact families, or those whose fathers were deceased. Peer acceptance and age at separation did not appear to be significantly related to the level o f self-esteem or perception of parental bonding.

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