Does Safe Base From Parents Moderate The Association Between Ethnic Harassment And Self-Esteem In Immigrant Adolescents

Abstract: The purpose for our study was to see whether reporting mothers and fathers safe base separately protects adolescents who are ethnically harassed from developing low self-esteem. To examine this, we use secondary longitudinal data with immigrant adolescents. In addition to bivariate correlations we ran two moderation regression analyses to test if perceived safe base from mothers or fathers could affect the link between ethnic harassment and self-esteem. Moreover, we wanted to see if perceiving safe base with either parent could change the level of self-esteem within the adolescent. The results showed significance when mothers safe base was tested as a moderator. However, this was not the case for the fathers. The findings in our study were discussed and compared to previous research.