Browsing by Subject "Parenting Styles"
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Kathambi, Valentine Muriungi (Daystar University School of Applied Human Sciences, October , 2022)[more][less]
Abstract: The study assessed the relationship between parenting styles and attachment styles among children in late childhood, focusing on Consolata Primary School, Nairobi County, Kenya. It sought to determine the attachment styles acquired by children in late childhood, examine the parenting styles adopted by parents of children in late childhood, investigate the relationship between social demographic characteristics and parenting styles among parents of children in late childhood, and ascertain the relationship between parenting styles and attachment styles among children in late childhood. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design. The target population was children in their late childhood - aged between 9 years and 12 years and in grade 4 to class 7, at Consolata Primary School. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 27.0. Some of the findings were as follows: many (87.6%) of the respondents had acquired a secure attachment with their parents, 11.8% had anxious attachment, and 11.0% had avoidant attachment; and the authoritative parenting style was used by 23.2% of the parents, the permissive style by 2.7%, the authoritarian style by 73.9%, and the dismissive style by 0.6%; For the authoritative parenting style, the predictors were the age of the respondents (p=0.013) and the grade of the student (p=0.003), while for the authoritarian parenting style, the predictors were the age of the parents (p=0.002) and the grade of the student (p=0.000). Moreover, the authoritative parenting style had a strong correlation (r=0.320) with secure attachment, while the dismissive style had the strongest correlation (r=0.131) with anxious attachment, followed by the authoritarian (r=0.069) parenting style. The study recommends that the findings be communicated to parents and policymakers to make them aware of parenting styles' impact on children. Description: MASTER OF ARTS in Clinical Psychology URI: http://repository.daystar.ac.ke/xmlui/handle/123456789/4041 Files in this item: 1
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Nzuki, Mercy Muthoni (Daystar University, School of Human and Social Sciences, October , 2020)
[more][less]Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the parenting styles used by parents in Deliverance Church International Umoja (DCIU) on their adolescent children and the influence the parenting styles had on the adolescents’ life-skills development. The study's objectives were to identify parenting styles employed by DCIU parents on their children, investigate the life-skills employed by adolescents attending the teens’ service in DCIU, establish the influence of parenting styles on adolescents’ life-skills development, and explore the relationship between social-demographic factors of parents and adolescents’ life-skills development. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study, and the target population comprised 2,050 adolescents’ aged 12-19 years attending DCIU. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 242 respondents. Questionnaires were used in data collection, and the data was analyzed through descriptive statistics using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. The study findings revealed that 15.2% of the parents employed the authoritative parenting style, 16.7% practiced authoritarian parenting style, 25.0% employed permissive parenting style, while 43.1% employed neglectful parenting style. In regard to the life-skills employed by adolescents attending the teens’ service in DCIU, 29.4% of them employed social skills, 22.1% employed emotional skills, and 48.5% employed cognitive skills. In terms of the influence of parenting styles on adolescents’ life-skills development, the study revealed that there was no significant association between parenting style and life-skills development. It was concluded that all the parenting styles equally contributed to the adolescents’ life-skills development. The study recommends the need for church leaders to create a platform where parents of adolescents in the different age categories can meet and share the parenting styles they use, the development outcomes the parenting styles have had on the adolescents, and the challenges the adolescents have faced. Description: Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology URI: http://repository.daystar.ac.ke/xmlui/handle/123456789/3391 Files in this item: 1
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