Perceptions of Parental Acceptance‐Rejection and Self‐Concepts among Ukrainian University Students

Abstract

This report describes perceptions of parental acceptance‐rejection, parental control and self‐concepts in a sample of 108 university students in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. The students responded to Russian translations of two questionnaires: the Parental Acceptance‐Rejection/Control Questionnaire (PARQ/Control) and the Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ). The Ukrainian respondents generally regarded their parents as loving, warm and low in hostility, aggression, neglect and indifference. The participants also revealed moderately positive self‐concepts. The now familiar pancultural correlation between perceptions of acceptance‐rejection and psychological adjustment was also observed. The more accepting the participants perceived their mothers and fathers to be, the more likely the students were to hold positive self‐concepts.