BECE. Newsletter 

Vol.12, No.2, 2022 1657 

 

 

 

 

Autocratic Parenting Style and Adolescent 

Perseverance: A Moderated Mediation Model 

By Li, X. N. & Liu, H. S. 
Correspondence to: Huashan Liu, Central China Normal University, China. E-

mail: 15432141@qq.com  

ERSEVERANCE, as an important positive mental quality, can predict 

not only academic performance, but also nonacademic outcomes. The 

cultivation of perseverance needs the nourishment of a good external envi-

ronment, including the support of parents, teachers, and peers as well as the 

influence of socialization, while improper environmental elements such as 

neglect, autocracy, rough treatment, discrimination hinder the cultivation of 

individual perseverance.  

This study constructed a moderated mediation model to examine the 

relationship between authoritarian parenting style, self-concept clarity, self-

worth, and the development of adolescent perseverance. A total of 2,101 ado-

lescents were tested with the Family Rearing Style Questionnaire, Adoles-

cent Self-reported Perseverance Scale, Self-concept Clarity Questionnaire, 

and Self-worth Scale. The results showed that: (i) Authoritarian parenting 

was significantly and negatively correlated with self-concept clarity and per-

severance of adolescents and was significantly and positively related to their 

self-worth; there was a significant positive correlation between self-concept 

clarity, self-worth, and perseverance of teenagers. (ii) In the mediation chain 

of autocratic parenting, self-concept clarity, and perseverance, self-worth 

moderated both the first half and the second half of the path. In the first half 

of the path, self-worth can alleviate the negative influence of autocratic par-

enting on the development of self-concept clarity; in the second half of the 

path, self-worth can enhance the positive impact of self-concept clarity on 

perseverance. 

 

Source: Educational Research and Experiment, 2021; 2021(5):84-90.

 

 

 
 

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