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Parenting Style, Parent-Adolescent Communication And Their Effects On Adolescents' Social Adjustment

Posted on:2005-10-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B X AnFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360122494908Subject:Basic Psychology
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The purpose of this thesis was to study parenting style, parent-adolescent communication, and to assess the links between them and adolescents' social adjustment. A sample of 391 junior and senior high school students completed self-report instruments. Parenting style, parent-adolescent communication, self-esteem, mental-health were assessed by Egna Minneu av Bardndosnauppforstran(EMBU), Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale(PACS), The Self-Esteem Scale(SES) and Mental Health Inventory of Middle-School Students (MMHI-60) respectively. The results suggest that:1. There was a significant main effect on parental penalty and strictness, parental over protection, paternal over involvement and paternal rejection and denying for gender. Male students had high scores on these factors compared to female students. The type of school brought about significant difference in parental warmth and understanding and parental rejection and denying. Students come from key schools had higher scores than their ordinary school counterparts on parental warmth and understanding, while ordinary school students had high scores on maternal rejection and denying than key school students. The grade also brought about significant difference in parental warmth and understanding, parental penalty and strictness and maternal rejection and denying. There was also an interaction between grade and the type of school. In general, 8th grade students had the lowest score on the positive parenting among the grades, but the highest score on negative parenting, such as penalty and strictness, rejection and denying. Senior school students had better results than junior school students.2. Mother-adolescent communication was perceived to be better than father-adolescent communication on the openness subscale of PACS. There was significant gender difference on the score of PACS for mother-adolescent communication. Female students' communication with mother was better than male students, but there was no significant difference between them on the problem subscale of PACS. In general, key school students' communication with parents was better thantheir ordinary school counterparts. The 8th grade students' communication with parents was the worst among the grades investigated, 7th and 10th students' were better.3. Our research found that there was extensive relation between parenting style, parent-adolescent communication and adolescents' social adjustment. Parental warmth and understanding, better parent-adolescent communication were positively related to the development adolescents' self-esteem and mental health, while parental penalty and strictness, rejection and denying had negative effects on them.4. The regression analysis revealed that parenting style and parent-adolescent communication had direct or indirect regressive effect on adolescents' social adjustment. According to the results of the regression analysis, we had built a path model of influences of parenting style, parent-adolescent communication on adolescents' mental health.5. We gave some suggestions on how to improve parent-adolescent communication.
Keywords/Search Tags:Adolescent, Parent-adolescent Communication, Parenting Style, Social adjustment, Mental-health
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