Darbo tikslas – nustatyti paauglių ir jų tėvų savęs vertinimo ir jų požiūrio į auklėjimą šeimoje sąsajas. Tyrime dalyvavo 494 tiriamųjų šeimos – 77 tėvai (15,6%) ir 415 motinų (84,0%), auginančių 9-11 klasės moksleivius – 155 vaikinus (31,4%) ir 339 merginų (68,6%). Tiriamųjų tėvų amžius kinta nuo 32 iki 62 metų. Dauguma paauglių (57,5%) yra 10 klasės gimnazistai. Tyrime savęs vertinimui įvertinti buvo naudota T. Nugent „Savęs vertinimo skalė“ (angl. Self-Esteem Rating Scale – SERS). Tėvų ir paauglių požiūris į auklėjimą buvo vertinamas S.J. Bavolek „Tėvų-paauglių auklėjimo klausimynu“ (angl. Adult-Adolescent Parenting Innventory – AAPI-2A). Taip pat buvo pateikiami papildomi klausimai apie socialinius-demografinius veiksnius: tiriamų tėvų buvo prašoma pažymėti lytį, amžių, šeimos sudėtį, išsilavinimą, užimtumą, vaikų skaičių ir parašyti savo nuomonę, ar pakankamai laiko praleidžia su savo 9-11 klasę lankančiu paaugliu. Paauglių buvo prašoma pažymėti lytį, gimimo eiliškumą, mokyklos tipą, klasę bei pažangumą. Tyrimas atliktas Kauno miesto gimnazijose. Iš 1200 išdalintų šeimoms anketų sugrįžo 511 (42,58%), iš jų 494 (96,67%) tinkamos tyrimui. Savęs vertinimas šiame darbe – tai situacinis visą gyvenimą trunkantis procesas, kurio pagrindas susiformuoja vaikystėje, tačiau svarbus ir senatvėje, kuris priklauso nuo sėkmės ar nesėkmės išgyvenimo, įsisąmoninamas per jausmus ir emocijas, ką išgyvena ir jaučia savo atžvilgiu. Tai savosios vertės, savo svarbumo pažinimas, kuris kelia... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The purpose of the study was to measure self-esteem correlations with parenting attitudes of prospective parents and their adolescent in the family. 494 families participates in the study, 415 (84,0%) of them being mothers and 77 (15,6%) fathers, having 9-11 class schoolchildren: 155 (31,4%) boys and 339 (68,6%) girls. Most of adolescents are 10 class schoolchildren. Age of study parents varies from 32 to 62. For evaluation of self-esteem, the study employed T. Nugent Self-Esteem Rating Scale – SERS. Parenting altitudes employed by parents and their adolescents were assessed using S.J. Bavolek Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory – AAPI-2A. Additional questions on social-demographic factors were also asked: gender and age of study parents, family composition, education and employment of study parents, how many children are in family; also gender and class of study adolescents, birth order, and school type. On the basis of the results obtained, the following conclusions were made: 1. Higher self-esteem of parents can be related with higher self-esteem of adolescents. 2. Self-esteem of adolescents can be related with their formative parenting attitudes: higher self-esteem can be related with formative higher level of empathy and formative higher values alternatives to corporal punishment. 3. Self-esteem of parents can be related with their parenting attitudes: higher self-esteem can be related with more appropriate family roles and higher values alternatives to corporal... [to full text]

This study measured the resistance to temptation of five-year-old children as related to their sex, Sunday school attendance, and mothers' working status; analyzed the mothers' parenting attitudes as influenced by work, church attendance, and family structure; and examined relationships between children's resistance to temptation and mothers' parenting attitudes.

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This thesis investigates the pattern of parental educational homogamy and its implications for parenting practices and children’s early development in contemporary Britain. At the heart of the thesis lies an interest in the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of educational success and, more specifically, the consequences for children of new patterns of parental resemblance in education. The thesis is composed of three empirical chapters, each of which is concerned with a different outcome: 1) trends in educational attainment and educational assortative mating amongst parental couples; 2) parents’ childrearing values and stimulation-oriented interactions with children; and 3) children’s early cognitive and behavioural skills. The first chapter combines data from four birth cohort studies from 1958, 1970, 1990 and 2000-01 while the second and third chapters rely exclusively on the latter study. The empirical analyses use Log-linear and Diagonal Reference models. With regard to trends in educational assortative mating, the thesis finds that the strength of homogamy increased between 1958 and 1970 to decrease thereafter and remain stable, at its lowest level, throughout the 1990s. Moreover, amongst recent cohorts of parental couples the percentage of unions where mothers are more educated than their male partners equalled that of unions exhibiting the opposite pattern. The findings concerning the dynamics of parenting in heterogamous couples suggest a pattern of female dominance in the attitudinal domain as fathers align with the views that can be expected on the basis of the mother’s level of education rather than their own; however, no significant adjustments between partners are observed in parenting behaviours. Lastly, the thesis finds a positive gradient in the association between parental education and children’s early cognitive and socio-emotional development but little or no support for the hypotheses of differential effects for sons and daughters or gender biases in parental preferences for children. That is, no significant interactions are observed between the gender of children and the impact of parents’ absolute and relative levels of education. Taken together, the findings of the thesis qualify concerns about the increase of educational assortative mating in industrialised societies and its potential consequences for the intergenerational reproduction of inequalities in education.

This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a filial therapy training model with high school students enrolled in a Peer Assistance Leadership (PAL) program. Specifically, this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of filial therapy in: (1) increasing observed empathic behavior with children, (2) increasing acceptance toward children, (3) increasing the ability to allow children self-direction, and (4) increasing the level of involvement with children. Additionally, this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of filial therapy in facilitating healthy parenting attitudes of nonparenting adolescents. A research question was presented to determine if a relationship exists between empathy, acceptance, involvement and allowing children self-direction and other factors considered to be healthy parenting attitudes. An Analysis of Covariance on post-test scores revealed significant findings in the high school students ability to demonstrate empathy towards children, allowing the child self direction, communication of acceptance, and involvement as measured by the Measurement of Empathy in Adult-Child Interactions (MEACI). An Analysis of Covariance on post-test scores revealed no significant changes in parenting attitudes as measured by Adult- Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2). A Bivariate Correlation revealed a statistically significant correlation between the Empathy, Acceptance, Allowing the Child Self-Direction and Involvement scales on the Measurement of Empathy in Adult-Child Interactions (MEACI) and the Oppressing Children's Power and Independence scale on the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2). This study supports the use of filial therapy as an effective training model for increasing high school students' empathic behavior with children. Filial therapy training offers significant possibilities for future use in high school curricula to facilitate the development of healthy parenting attitudes and interactions between future parents and children.