Emotion Management and self-esteem in the Relationship between Parent-Child Relationship Pattern and Communication Skills: Structural Equation Modeling

Parent-child relationship patterns are one of the essential components of child development and are often linked to the most important achievements of children, including their social and cognitive abilities. It is also the basis for most people's personality, attitudes, emotions and habits.The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between Parent-Child Relationship Pattern and communication skills through Emotion Management and self-esteem. The participants were 400 university students selected by Stratified sampling method from Jahrom University. The participants completed the Bagheri’s parent-child relationship patterns questionnaire and test Communication Skills Questionnaire Quinn Dam, Emotion Management and self-esteem Coopersmit. The results indicated that the model had good fit indices. There were direct effects of Parent-Child Relationship Pattern on Emotion Management and self-esteem. The Parent-Child Relationship Pattern had an indirect effect on Communication Skills through self-esteem. The findings suggested that Father Circuit security predicted self-esteem and Emotion Management and Mother circuit security predicted Emotion Management, and Mother release predicted and self-esteem in turn determined Communication Skills.