PARENTAL ATTITUDES AMONG MEMBERS OF THE DOMESTIC CHURCH COMMUNITY

Abstract

This article presents the results of the empirical verification of the hypothesis that spouses belonging to the Domestic Church community have more proper parental attitudes than spouses who do not belong to any religious community. The basis for this hypothesis was the previous research, according to which the relationship of these spouses with their children is based on proper closeness and communication. The research carried out here, in which the Parental Attitudes Scale, by M. Plopa, was used, proved that the parental attitudes of the spouses belonging to the Domestic Church community are characterized by the greatest consistency and autonomy, as well as appropriate protection and demands, and showed no differences in the acceptance dimension. They also showed that these behaviors contradict the trends revealed in Plopa’s study, as they correlate positively with their age, male gender, marital seniority, age and the number of children, and nega­tively with education. One of the reasons for the results obtained seems to be the membership of the House Church community and participation in religious formation, which obliges these parents to ‘work’ on their interactions with their children.