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Young South African Adults' Perceptions of Parental Psychological Control and Antisocial Behavior
Social Behavior and Personality …, 2012
We extended prior research by investigating perceptions of parental psychological control as a contributor to young adults' antisocial behavior in a sample of 382 South African university students aged between 18 and 25 years. Barber's (1996) measure of parental psychological control and the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1987) questionnaires were administered for data collection. A positive relationship was found between parental psychological control and the antisocial behavior of young adults. Additionally, the results of the hierarchical regression analysis suggest that maternal psychological control, compared to paternal psychological control, was a stronger predictor of antisocial behavior.
The study established the effect of parenting styles on children behaviours among adolescents in Kisoro District. It was guided by objectives which were; to establish the effect of authoritarian parenting style on children behaviour among adolescents in Kisoro Municipality, to assess the effect of permissive parenting style on children behaviour among adolescents in Kisoro Municipality and to identify the effect of authoritative parenting on children behaviour among adolescents in Kisoro Municipality. The study advocated using a cross-sectional research design, which was supported by mixed methods approach. A sample size of 379 participants who were chosen using simple random and purposive sampling was used in the study. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data and Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.0 was used to conduct the descriptive and inferential statistics during data analysis. The results showed a correlation coefficient of r=.994**, indicating a positive but statistically significant relationship between authoritarian parenting style and adolescents' behavior. The correlation findings showed that permissive parenting has a high positive significant relationship with adolescent children's behavior (.905**). Results showed that there was a statistically significant association between authoritative parenting and adolescents' behavior in Kisoro Municipality, as indicated by the Pearson correlation coefficient r of .934**. The study came to the conclusion that adolescents' behavior in Kisoro Municipality had a substantial favorable association with an authoritarian parenting style. In Kisoro Municipality, children's behavior during adolescence had a substantial favorable link with permissive parenting. According to the study findings, authoritative parenting and adolescent behaviour in Kisoro Municipality have a significant relationship. The study recommended that parents in Kisoro Municipality should encourage their children to talk about their feelings and problems, explain their expectations to their children, and consider their children's preferences. They should practice authoritative parenting style alongside other strategies in order to promote positive parenting of children. The study recommended that the stakeholders should work towards mitigating the negative effects of permissive parenting style taking it in mind that permissive parenting style makes children do what they are not supposed to do due to too much freedom. The study also recommended that parents should always urge their children to attend church, learn Christian values from religious authorities and take those authorities' opinions into consideration when making decisions. Parents shouldn't physically abuse their kids because doing so would teach them negative behavior. To stop children from committing crimes and identifying themselves with illegal behavior, there should be a decrease in physical punishment and constant parental involvement with children.
Young South African adults perceptions of parent psychological control and antisocial behaviour
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We extended prior research by investigating perceptions of parental psychological control as a contributor to young adults' antisocial behavior in a sample of 382 South African university students aged between 18 and 25 years. measure of parental psychological control and the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1987) questionnaires were administered for data collection. A positive relationship was found between parental psychological control and the antisocial behavior of young adults. Additionally, the results of the hierarchical regression analysis suggest that maternal psychological control, compared to paternal psychological control, was a stronger predictor of antisocial behavior.
The study investigated the influence of parenting styles on deviant behavior and academic achievement of secondary school students. The study was carried out in three local government education authorities in Garoua, Northern Province of Cameroun. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. Ex-post-facto design was adopted for the study. The sample of 350 students were drawn from the population using multi-stage sampling technique. A 45-item instrument tagged ‘Parenting Style Questionnaire’ and another of 15- item instrument tagged ‘Deviant Behavior Questionnaire, all developed on a four point scale by the researchers after extensive review of relevant literature, were used for data collection. The instruments for the study were validated and a trial test to ascertain the reliability of the instrument was carried out. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the research hypotheses. The results of the study showed that parenting styles influence deviant behaviors and academic achievement of secondary school students. Specifically, the results of the two null hypotheses showed that the influence of parenting styles on students’ deviant behavior is significant. It was recommended that the government through the relevant agencies should ensure that parents are encouraged to participate in any parenting education programme organized by the government to help in their parenting task.
Parenting Style and Anti-social Behavior: An Exploratory Study of Secondary School Students
2019
The primal objective of present study was to investigate the relationship of parenting style with secondary school students’ antisocial behaviour. Population of the study consisted of all students enrolled in public secondary schools of the Sahiwal division. Random sampling technique was employed for sample selection. Researchers selected all three districts of Sahiwal division i.e. Pakpattan, Okara and Sahiwal. Eight schools from each district were randomly selected as sample of the study. Data were collected from 190 male (95 urban and 95 rural) and 200 female (100 urban and 100 rural) students by using two questionnaires viz. Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) and Sub-Types of Antisocial Behaviour (STAB). Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for data analysis. Pearson r was run to analyze the data. It was inferred from analysis that majority of public secondary schools students perceive fathers’ parenting style to be authoritarian and mothers’ to be autho...
Parenting a Factor Associated with Deviancy amongst Students at Bokamoso Junior Secondary School
International journal of educational studies, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine how parenting contributes to deviancy in school among students at Bokamoso Junior Secondary School. The study was a descriptive survey in which a questionnaire was administered to Form 2 and Form 3 students of Bokamoso Secondary School to collect data. The results were then presented using mean and standard deviation. The results showed that majority of students were male around the age of 16-20 years. The results further revealed that parental involvement has a significant influence on students being deviant, which was given by an average mean of 2.55 which is above the criterion mean of 2.50 and average standard deviation of 0.572. It was concluded that parenting is factor associated with a deviancy amongst students at Bokamoso Secondary School. It was therefore recommended that there should be a joint disciplinary council consisting of parents or guardian, teachers and school management which usually recommends on how to deal or act on certain offences depending on the gravity of offences.
Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 2021
The role of the parent in the family is to prepare children for adulthood through setting rules and disciplining, thereby playing a vital role in the socialization of children and adolescents. It is a role that cannot be abdicated to the school or other institutions. As children mature into adulthood, whatever the parents have impacted on them is reflected in their lives and may be more profound than any other influence. Parenting involves bringing up and looking after children, which may be done by either the biological or surrogate parents. It plays major roles in the overall development of a child and includes the social, educational and other adaptive behaviours that prepare the child for future life. Different parents carry out this function differently, owing to their diverse personalities and exposure, giving rise to different parenting styles and influences on the children they bring up. A parenting style is the environment in which families operate and where child-upbringing behaviour of parents or other key caretakers manifest. Kelland (2007) observes that where a model parenting style is used in the home the children are disciplined, but where it is lacking cases of indiscipline often arise. Deviant behaviour is defined as a violation of social values, community norms and a society's rules (Nyamoko&Ongole, 2014). Deviance in schools takes the form of truancy, habitual lateness, drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, inappropriate cross-gender relationships, skipping class, riots, vandalizing school properties, fighting, disrespect for authority, negative attitude and arrogance, and resistance to change (Nabiswa, Misigo&Makhanu, 2016). There is a tendency for deviant individuals to indulge in different forms of antisocial behaviour Unchecked, deviance at school can be contagious and reach dangerous levels. The cultural transmission theory argues that like other behaviours, deviance is learnt. The Differential-Association theory holds that deviance can be learnt in the same way that conformity is, through interaction with deviant individuals. It therefore calls for deliberate efforts to tackle deviance when it manifests. Cases of deviant behaviour leading to tragedy have been recorded in several countries. In Minnesota, United States, on the morning of March 21 st 20005, a sixteen year-old killed nine people in a shooting spree, seven of whom were fellow students at the Red Lake Senior High School. In Kenya 67 students died at the Kyanguli High School on 24 th March 2001 following arson by fellow students (Malayi, 2013). Loeber, Farrington and Petechuk (2008), in a study in the United States, observed that delinquent children increased by a third between 1990 and 2000. The current study focused on deviant behaviour among secondary school students in Kandara Sub-county, Murang'a County, Kenya, which has been on an upswing.
International Journal of the Forum for African Women Educationalists, 2014
The study was conducted to determine the relationship between parenting styles and secondary school adolescents’ tendencies towards aggressive behaviours in Onitsha Education Zones, Anambra State. Five research questions guided the study. A correlational survey research design was adopted by the researcher. A total of 188 secondary school adolescents and their parents, chosen through simple random sampling, formed the sample for the study. The instruments used for data collection were the Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire (BPAQ)" and the Parenting Styles Questionnaire (PSQ)". The researcher used the Cronbach alpha method to determine the reliability coefficient value of each, and the values were r = 0.877 for BPAQ and 0.934 for PSQ. Percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients were used to answer the research questions. Findings from the study reveal, among others, that the majority of secondary school adolescents displayed a tendency towards aggressive behaviour. Based on the findings, the implications of the study were noted, and recommendations were made to include, among others, the need for a serious commitment of school guidance counsellors with teachers and parents to work in collaboration with parents towards initiating and implementing programmes that address the issues of adolescents’ aggressive tendencies.
Journal of Social Sciences, 2003
This is an investigation into some perceived parental undesirable behaviours that may predict child sexual, physical and emotional abuse among a sample of university students in South Africa. 722 undergraduate students of psychology at the University of the North, South Africa, filled in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. The questionnaire asked questions about perceived parental undesirable behaviours during childhood, and childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Logistic Regression Analysis shows that among all the participants, 'parent haven gone into a psychiatric hospital for psychiatric problems' and 'parent haven had problems with drugs or alcohol' predict child sexual abuse. 'Participant's feeling of being mistreated because of parental psychiatric problems' and 'parent hitting or beating up the other parent' predict child physical abuse. Again, 'Parent hitting or beating up the other parent' predict child emotional abuse. Mental health and social workers, educators and law enforcement agencies dealing with prevention and protection against child abuse in the province should take note of the above identified risk factors while designing programmes for the eradication of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
Parenting Style Dimensions As Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Antisocial behavior is strongly associated with academic failure in adolescence. There is a solid body of evidence that points to parenting style as one of its main predictors. The objective of this work is to elaborate a reduced, valid, and reliable version of the questionnaire by Oliva et al. (2007) to evaluate the dimensions of parenting style and to analyze its psychometric properties in a sample of Spanish adolescents. To that end, the designed questionnaire was applied to 1974 adolescents 12-18 years of age from Asturias (Spain). Regarding construct validity, the results show that the model that best represents the data is composed of six dimensions of parenting style, just as in the original scale, namely affection and communication; promotion of autonomy; behavioral control; psychological control; self-disclosure; and humor. The psychological control factor negatively correlates with the other factors, with the exception of behavioral control, with which it positively correlates. The remaining correlations among the factors in the parenting style questionnaire are positive. Regarding internal consistency, the reliability analysis for each factor supports the suitability of this six-factor model. With regard to criterion validity, as expected based on the evidence available, the six dimensions of parenting style correlate in a statistically significant manner with the three antisocial behavior measures used as criteria (off-line school aggression, antisocial behavior, and antisocial friendships). Specifically, all dimensions negatively correlate with the three variables, except for psychological control. In the latter case, the correlation is positive. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.