PARENTING STYLES AND SELF-RESPECT OF ADOLESCENTS
PARENTING STYLES AND SELF-RESPECT OF ADOLESCENTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt at explicating a part of relationships between parents and their child significant for forming child’s personality. Accent is put on the relationship: parent – child, i.e. the aspect of parental role, emphasizing the significance of upbringing actions of parents in forming certain personality features of the child. The starting point of the research on the correlation between upbringing actions of parents and the level to which their child has developed self-respect was the standpoint according to which dominant exposure to certain upbringing styles creates different conditions for personality development. The research considered various styles parents apply in their child upbringing (relying on the perception of a child), identifying which upbringing climate would be most or least favourable for the development of self-respect of future adults. Research aim was to try and offer answers to the following question: which are upbringing styles that develop positive self-image of children and what is the role of parents in this process. The paper also outlines theoretical standpoints on upbringing function of a family on the one hand and the empirical research on the relation between various form of behaviour of parents and the personality features of their children, on the other. The research sample consisted of 160 of second, third and fourth grade students attending the general high school “Jan Kolar” in Backi Petrovac; the type of sample was convenience sample. Pedagogical implications of research findings refer to giving help to parents to choose, as adequately as possible and at the same time as true to themselves as possible, the actions and procedures forming their upbringing style in order to raise healthy, happy and satisfied children.

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