Predicting self-care based on the parent-child relationship and the emotional atmosphere of the family in women during childhood

Self-care is a preventive strategy, which improves physical and psychological health and is influenced by parenting and family relationships, including parent-child relationship. This study aimed to assess this relationship.

This was a cross sectional study. Participants completed the Hilburn Family Emotional Climate Questionnaire, the Parent-Child Relationship Rating Questionnaire (PCRS), and the Self-Care Questionnaire. The relationship between survey variables was assessed using the pathway analysis.
Resutls: The results showed that self-care was directly related to the quality of the mother-child relationship (p=0.029), the quality of the father-child relationship (p = 0.014), and the emotional atmosphere of the family (p < 0.001). Family emotional climate also indirectly mediated mother-child relationships, father-child relationships, and quality of self-care (p<0.01).

The findings suggest that there are direct and indirect relationship between self-care and the mother-child, the father-child and the emotional climate of the family.