Perceptions Of Parental Behavior Research Articles

A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Parenting Styles and Self-Concepts of Black and White High School Students

This study aimed to examine the relationships between parenting styles and self-concepts of Black and White high school students. Data on these variables were collected from 2014 adolescents from five urban high schools around the metropolitan area of Cape Town, South Africa. Parenting styles were measured by the Perceived Parental Behavior Inventory (PPBI) and self-concept by the SelfDescription Inventory (SDI). For Black students all the self-concept facets measured were positively related to their perceptions of parental behaviors, although the relationship reached significance only for the relations with family, general school and physical appearance selfconcepts for White students. Growing up in a socioeconomically segregated society is considered in the light of parent-adolescent relations and self-concept.

Family conditions, parental acceptance, and social competence and aggression in Chinese children

AbstractThe purpose of the present study was to examine the relations among family ecological factors including parental educational and occupational status, family income and housing conditions, the quality of the marital relationship and social support, parental acceptance and rejection, and social competence in a sample of Chinese children. Four hundred and seventy‐six primary school children in Shanghai, P.R. China, and their parents participated in the study. Children were administered a peer assessment measure of social behavior and a measure of their perceptions of parental behavior. Parents completed questionnaires concerning family background, parental acceptance and rejection, perceived social support, and marital conflict and satisfaction. Teachers completed a rating scale concerning children's behaviors in school. Information on children's leadership was collected from the school administrative records. Results indicated that parental educational and occupational status was associated with family psychological conditions which, in turn, were predictive of parental acceptance. Family capital resources were negatively related to parental acceptance. Results also indicated that parental acceptance was associated positively with prosocial‐competent behavior in children and negatively with aggressive behavior in children. Parental educational and occupational status was directly associated with children's competent behavior. Finally, it was found that family psychological resources were positively related to competent behavior and negatively related to aggression in children, through the mediation of parental acceptance and rejection. Family capital resources were indirectly and positively associated with child aggression through the mediation of parental acceptance and rejection.

Child dissociation and the family context

Forty boys and their parents completed measures of dissociation, state anxiety, and perceptions of parental behaviors. Mothers completed a behavior problems checklist about their sons. The results indicated a correspondence between fathers' and sons' dissociation scores. In addition, links were found between parental dissociation, parental inconsistency and rejection, and child dissociation. The findings are discussed in the context of several recently proposed models of the etiology of child dissociative disorders.

親子関係と人格要因との関連性についての一考察

親子関係と人格要因との関連性についての一考察

Parental Behavior and African Adolescents' Self-Concepts

This study examines the relationships between adolescents' perceptions of parental behavior and a measure of adolescents' self-concepts. The research is based on 274 African adolescents (14 to 20 years of age). The Perceived Parental Behavior Inventory (PPBI) was used to operationalize adolescents' perceptions of parental behaviors. Adolescents' self-concepts were measured with the Self-Description Inventory (SDI). The findings suggest that adolescents' self-concepts (relations with family, general school, physical appearance, relations with peers, health, global) were positively related to their perceptions of parental behaviors. Girls' self-concepts (relations with family, general school, physical appearance, health) were found to be more sensitive to parental behaviors (support, interest, encouragement, expectations, and participation). In general, these findings tend to support the symbolic interactionist perspective of the development of self.

Differential perception of parental bonding in schizotypal and borderline personality disorder patients

Fifty-four patients with schizotypal and/or borderline personality disorders were compared with 165 patients with other personality disorders and 52 patients with no personality disorders as to their perception of parental behavior in childhood. Both schizotypals and borderlines reported low care; however, schizotypals remembered underprotection and borderline overprotection. The study suggests parental neglect in the childhood memory of schizotypals and negative overinvolvement for borderlines.

Shyness and Perceptions of Parental Behavior

Previous research has indicated that parental behavior affects development of shyness in children. Specifically decreased levels of parental acceptance tend to foster social anxiety and shy behavior. The present study examined the relationship between 56 female college students' perceptions of their parents' behavior and their own reports of shyness or social reticence. Confirmation of the hypothesis that shyness decreases as parents are perceived as accepting and supportive and that shyness is related to perceived parental control was tested. This study examined differences in daughters' perceptions of their mothers and fathers in relation to their own shyness. Shyness correlated negatively with perceived maternal acceptance (−.28 to −.35) and positively with perceived maternal psychological control (.26 to .44).

Ego Development and Perceptions of Parent Behavior in Adolescent Girls

The developmental dynamics of achieving egoautonomy in adolescent girls have not been adequately explored. This is a report of a qualitative study that investigated the relationship between female adolescent ego development and parent behavior from the perspective of the adolescent girl's view of her parents. The thesis of the study was that in order to understand the process of ego development in the adolescent girl, it would be necessary to understand that her development is embedded within the context of a father-daughter-mother triangle. Twelve high school senior girls were randomly selected from a larger study and intensively interviewed as they were negotiating the transition from high school to college. Findings indicated that perceived parenting behaviors of their mothers andfathers and the girls' level of ego development were related lo each other and to variations in the effectiveness with which the adolescents negotiated the difficulties associated with the transition to college.

The emotional adjustment of children with Tourette's syndrome.

We investigated the predictive value of family reaction and illness severity with respect to the emotional adjustment of Tourette's syndrome patients. The subjects included 30 children with Tourette's syndrome and 30 control subjects matched on age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status. The predictor variables included the child's perception of parental behavior, family adaptability as perceived by the mother, mother's self-concept, and illness severity. The results indicated that the children's perceptions of their parents' behavior explained the most variance in children's self-concepts and anxiety for both groups. These findings highlight the importance of the parent-child interaction in predicting the child's emotional adjustment to Tourette's syndrome.

Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem

In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence between parents' reports of their behavior (on measures of control/autonomy, support, and participation) and children's perceptions of this behavior. Furthermore, children's selfevaluations were much more strongly related to their perceptions of parental behavior than to parents' self-reported behavior. Boys' self-esteem was found to be more sensitive to the control/autonomy aspect of parental behavior; girls' self-esteem was more strongly affected by parental support and participation. In general, perceptions of paternal behavior were somewhat more consequential for adolescent self-esteem than were perceptions of maternal behavior, and surprisingly, these parent-child interaction variables were found to be more strongly related to boys' self-esteem than to girls' self-esteem. These findings tend to support the symbolic interactionist perspective on the development of selfconcept.

Mothers' and Grandmothers' Perceptions of Parental Behavior in Three-Generational Black Families

WILSON, MELVIN N. Mothers' and Grandmothers' Perceptions of Parental Behavior in ThreeGenerational Black Families. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1984, 55, 1333-1339. This study was designed to investigate perceptions of normal interactions between grandmother and grandchild and between mother and child in black families. Grandmothers, mothers, and children between the ages of 8 and 14 were interviewed using Bronfenbrenner's Parental Behavior Scale. For the 60 participating families, there were 2 levels of family structure, single-parent or dual-parent, and 2 levels of grandmother's domicile, living with the family or living in the local community. The results indicate that grandmothers perceived themselves and were perceived as having more active involvement with children when they live with their single adult daughter than in the other conditions. Also, grandmothers living in the community perceived their single adult daughters as having less active involvement with their children than in the other conditions. Generally, these findings indicate that black family patterns are more complex than previously assumed, and that extended family involvement in child rearing supports the strength/resilience approach to black family research.

Children's perceptions of parental behaviors.

Children's perceptions of positive and negative parental behaviors were assessed using a newly-developed scale, the Parent Perception Inventory (PPI). Reliability and validity were examined across a sample of 75 children aged 5 to 13 using additional measures administered to the children and measures completed by their parents. The scale showed acceptable levels of internal consistency. No effects of children's age were apparent, but effects of the child's and parent's gender were found. Boys reported more positive parental behaviors, particularly for fathers, and children reported more negative (disciplinary) behaviors by mothers. PPI scores were predictably related to child's self-concept and behavior problems (convergent validity) and generally unrelated to measures of child's achievement (discriminant validity). As predicted by family systems theory, children from nondistressed families viewed their parents as behaving more similarly on the PPI than did children from distressed families.

Correlates of drug abuse in adolescents: A comparison of families of drug abusers with families of nondrug abusers

This study was designed to compare drug-abusing adolescents and their families with nondrug-abusing adolescents and their families by (1) a comparison of the adolescents on measures of self-esteem and perceived parental behavior, (2) a comparison of the parents of drug-abusing adolescents with the parents of nondrug-abusing adolescents on child-rearing attitudes and on distortion in perceived parental behavior, and (3) an identification of the salient factors contributing to the prediction of drug-use in adolescents. The subjects in this study were 26 clinical inpatient drug-abusing adolescents and their parents and 26 nondrug-abusing adolescents and their parents. Testdata consisted of the adolescent's self-esteem score on the Self Esteem Inventory (SEI), the adolescent's factor score on the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory-Revised (CRPBI-R), and the parents' scale score on each of the five factors of the Parent Attitude Survey (PAS). Findings indicate that the adolescent's self-esteem and perception of parental behavior, the ability of the parents to predict the child's parental perceptions, and the professed parental attitudes toward confidence and responsibility in child rearing all combine to suggest a set of factors differentiating the drug-abusing adolescent from the nondrug-abusing adolescent.

The Relationship between Moral Character and Adolescents' Perception of Parental Behavior

Summary The objective was to determine to what extent and in what ways various child rearing practices are related to the moral character structure of young adults. One hundred forty-four male and female college students completed a 137-item self-report questionnaire which assessed the moral character dimensions of socialization, empathy, autonomy, and ethical attitudes identified by Hogan. The Ss were also asked to rate their parents retrospectively as to their child rearing practices. Six scales were created for each parent through a factor analysis of the 40-item parental practices inventory. The results indicate a number of significant correlations (p < .01) between parental practices and socialization and empathy. The accepting, inductive, and lax controlling parent variables were positively correlated with socialization and empathy. Rejecting, strict controlling, and power assertive parental variables were negatively related to socialization and empathy. Autonomy and ethical attitudes were not linea...

Hemophilia: A psychological study in chronic disease in juveniles

Personality, intelligence and perception of parental behavior in 50 hemophilic boys is compared to same aspects of 50 healthy controls of same age, sex, number and rank order siblings and SES. Both groups do not differ. There is no increased frequency of neurotic disorders according to Eysenck's classification and of perceived maternal over-protective behavior among hemophilic boys. Furthermore the correspondence of physical handicap and personality is studied. Severe physical handicap is related to lower scores of extraversion and high scores of neuroticism. Findings are discussed in regard to interaction of physical and psychological handicap.

Perception of parental behavior by adolescents in crisis.

The Bronfenbrenner Parent Behavior Questionnaire was used to study parental behavior as perceived by 86 adolescents (aged 12 to 18 yr.) in a crisis ward. In contrast to normal school age children, these adolescents viewed their parents as significantly more punitive, intrusive, restrictive, and to have higher demands for achievement for their children. A factor analysis of 15 subscales delineated four orthogonal factors: Nurturing, Punishing, Firm Control vs Lax Control, and Rejection. In terms of these factorial dimensions, no significant correlation was observed between the adolescents' perception of parental behavior and the specific forms of their crisis behavior, i.e., suicidal, aggressive, psychotic, and drug-induced psychotic behaviors.

The association of peer acceptance-rejection with children's perception of parental behaviors

The association of peer acceptance-rejection with children's perception of parental behaviors

Resistance to temptation, moral development, and perceptions of parental behavior among adolescent boys.

Resistance to temptation, moral development, and perceptions of parental behavior among adolescent boys.

Perceptions of parental behavior and identification with parents by three groups of boys differing in school adjustment.

Perceptions of parental behavior and identification with parents by three groups of boys differing in school adjustment.