The Differences Among Attachment, Psychosocial Wellbeing and Academic Achievement Motivation of Foster Children and Their Socio-Demographic Variables in Save Our Soul Enfants Ethiope, Burayu Orphanage Vocational Training and Production Center (SOS EE BOVT

doi:10.7176/nmmc/94-01

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to explore the differences among attachment, psychosocial wellbeing and academic achievement motivation of foster children and their socio-demographic variables in SOS EE BOVTPC. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to achieve the research objectives. The participants were: 134 foster children for quantitative methods and six foster families and six foster children for qualitative methods. The participants were selected using stratified random sampling technique, while the six foster families and the six foster children were purposefully taken as a sample. The self-report version of the Relationship Structures (ECR-RS) questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for children age ranging above 11, the Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI), and semi-structured interviews instruments were administered. Data from the quantitative survey were analyzed using mean score, standard deviation, independent t-test, and one way ANOVA. The qualitative data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Independent T-test for group mean difference revealed that there was no significant difference in female and male foster children attachment, psychosocial wellbeing, and academic achievement motivation. On the other hand, there were significant difference in task orientation and anxious attachment of foster children who live with married and single parents. ANOVA result indicated that, the avoidance attachment shows a significant difference in the educational levels of foster parents. However, there were no differences in the overall psychosocial wellbeing of foster children and foster families educational levels. Nonetheless, the overall academic achievement motivation has shown significant differences between each educational level of foster children. This indicated that the organization should give emphasize for the improvement of their weakness. Keywords : Academic Achievement Motivation, Attachment, Psychosocial Wellbeing DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/94-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2020

Highlights

Tukey's HSD was used to determine the nature of the differences between children peer problems, who live with parents who had different educational levels
Difference in Dependent Variables with Respect to Foster Children Sex and Foster Parents Marital Status The anxious attachment result indicated that foster children who live with single parents have higher anxious attachment than foster children who live with married foster parents
Based on the major findings of the study, the following conclusions are drawn: The SOS EE BOVTPC fosters www.iiste.org children attachment, psychosocial wellbeing, and academic achievement motivations are differ with their sex and educational levels

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Introduction

It refers to the strong emotional bond that exists between an infant and his/her caretaker and defined as relationship between two people and forms the basis for long-term relationships (Roy and Kathleen 2007). Studies on attachment relationship between single mothers and their children showed inconsistent results ranging from increased to slightly decreased children’s attachment security (Shaw et al, 2012). In addition to this poor educational level of parents affect their attachment with foster children (Seow, 2012)

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