Background: Many adolescents in Indonesia still experience mental health issues. Increasing adolescents’ well-being and self-esteem might prevent the issues in the future. Strength-based parenting (SBP) is a parenting style where parents seek to deliberately identify and develop positive conditions, processes, and qualities in their children. SBP was found to increase adolescents’ happiness and life satisfaction. Unfortunately, SBP was under-studied in Indonesia.
Aim of study: The first study investigated the contribution of SBP to adolescents’ well-being and the second study investigated the contribution of SBP to adolescents’ self esteem.
Methods: Participants were 191 and 215 high school students in Indonesia (13-18 years old). The SBP scale and Pemberton Happiness Index were used to measure strength-based parenting and adolescents’ well-being, respectively. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used to measure self-esteem. A multiple regression analysis was used in both studies.
Results: In first and second study, both components of SBP (strength knowledge and strength use) contributed significantly to adolescent well-being, F(2,188) = 46.80, p < .001, r2 = .31, and to adolescents’ self-esteem, F(2,212) = 28.53, p < .001, r2 = .21.
Conclusion: SBP significantly predicted adolescent well-being and self-esteem. The findings confirm and extend the results of previous studies in Western culture.