Childrearing Attitudes Of Mothers Research Articles

Relationship Between Child Rearing Attitudes of Mothers and Behavioral Problems in Primary School Children

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between child rearing attitudes in mothers and behavioral problems in elementary school children.Material and Methods. 128 children were selected with convenient sampling method from a school in Istanbul, 60 girls and 68 boys, were enrolled in the study. The Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) and Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18) were administered to mothers as data collection tools, and a Sociodemographic Information Form prepared by the authors was also used.Results: Increment was observed in the scores of children’s anxiety/depression levels, social introversion, thought problems and internalization levels in line with the scores of the mothers’ over-controlling mothering. As the democratic attitude level scores increased, children’s sociability scores also increased. Additionally, as the strict discipline level scores increased, scores related with children’s aggressive behavior, social problems and externalization levels also increased. Conclusion: As a summary, a significant relation was determined between parenting attitudes in mothers and behavioral problems encountered in children.

Relationship between Child-Rearing Attitudes of Mothers of Cerebral Palsied Children and Their Children’s Adaptive Behaviors

Relationship between Child-Rearing Attitudes of Mothers of Cerebral Palsied Children and Their Children’s Adaptive Behaviors

The mental health of Muslim mothers in extended families living in Britain: the impact of intergenerational disagreement on anxiety and depression.

The study assessed the impact of intergenerational differences of opinion over child rearing on the mental health of Muslim mothers living in extended families. The study adopted a correlational design in an attempt to identify factors that accounted for mental health problems. The child-rearing attitudes of mothers and grandmothers, mothers' mental health, levels of family acculturation and a range of other background and demographic information was collected from 54 extended families living in two Muslim communities in London using Urdu versions of standard questionnaires. Rates of depression and anxiety among the mothers in the study were high. Grandmothers had more traditional attitudes to child rearing than did mothers. Intergenerational discrepancy over child rearing was more marked in more acculturated families. Discrepancy was associated with higher levels of mothers' anxiety and depression. The unusually high levels of depression and anxiety displayed by Muslim mothers living in extended families can in part be accounted for by patterns of intergenerational discrepancy. These possibly reflect discordant world views within those families that have been assimilated into the dominant British culture.

A Study of the Relationship between the Intention of Pregnancy and the Child-Rearing Attitudes of Mothers with Infants

A Study of the Relationship between the Intention of Pregnancy and the Child-Rearing Attitudes of Mothers with Infants

The Longitudinal Effects of Divorce and Maternal Employment on the Home Environments of Preschool Children

The purpose of this study was to examine the home environments of children whose mothers were married1 working, married/nonworking, or divorced/working across an eighteen-month period. The sample consisted of 42 families, with children from 4 1/2 to 7 years of age. The HOME (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment) Inventory was administered in the home to assess the amount of cognitive and social stimulation provided the children. The home environments of children from divorced/working homes were found to be less cognitive and socially stimulating than those of married homes. These differences did not appear to be reflective of differences in the child-rearing attitudes of mothers from divorced and married families. The home environments of the married families with and without working mothers were found to very similar.

Derivation of parent norms for the Maryland Parent Attitude Survey: application to parents of developmentally delayed children.

The Maryland Parent Attitude Survey developed by Pumroy was employed to study child-rearing attitudes of mothers of normal and developmentally delayed preschool-aged children. Data were collected from 167 mothers of normal children and 55 mothers and 38 fathers of children with a mild to moderate delay. Because Pumroy's original non-parent normative data were not consistent with findings for our sample, all the scores of the parents of the developmentally delayed children were compared with new normative data collected from the mothers of the non-handicapped children. Differences between the two groups of mothers were found on two of the four scales but no significant differences were found between the scores of mothers and fathers of the delayed children across the scales. Further examination of the data supported findings previously described in the literature.

A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES OF FATHERS

Parental attitude research has tended to pay more attention to the childrearing attitudes of mothers than of fathers. This may be justified on the basis of the assumption that mothers' attitudes are likely to be more influential in determining the child's behavior since they typically spend more time with children than fathers. However, some recent research (2) has suggested that this may not necessarily be the case. Schaefer and Bell (3) and Zuckerman, Ribback, Monashkin, and Norton (8) have published factor analyses of parental attitudes of mothers measured by PARI, and Milton (i) has published a factor analysis of mothers' attitudes as assessed by interview. It was the purpose of this study to do a comparable analysis of fathers' attitudes for comparison purposes and to develop factor scales for the measurement of parental attitudes of fathers.

COMPARISON OF CHILDREARING ATTITUDES OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS

There has been an increasing amount of interest in the nature of the parent-child relationship over the past two decades, as reflected by the broadening scope of experimental literature devoted to the investigation of various types of childrearing practices and their correlates in personality development (2, 4, io). It is a generally accepted axiom that a child's mother and father exert a considerable influence on the establishment of his characteristic style of need expression. This seems to be based, in part, on the parents' primary position among all of the child's interpersonal relationships and to the pervasiveness of their contact with the child during the early formative years. Many studies have focused on the mother's relationship to her child (1, 6, 8, 12) and, in addition, a few on the father-child relationship (3, 7). However, there has been little reported work on a comparison between the childrearing attitudes of mothers and fathers. One reason for this seems to be the lack of a suitable instrument for a direct comparison of these attitudes.