PARENTAL PERCEPTION OF THE CHILD’S BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES - PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES
PARENTAL PERCEPTION OF THE CHILD’S BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES - PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to explore the psychosocial correlates (age, residential area and relationships between parents) of parental perceptions of children’s behaviours and communication difficulties. Participants in the study were 120 female, aged 24 - 46 years (M = 34.34, SD = 4.55), mothers of 120 preschool children (64 boys and 51 girls) from 6 Kindergartens in Bucharest and Târgu Jiu, Romania. In order to collect data about family relations, parental perceptions about their child’s behaviour and communication difficulties, three self-rating questionnaires were used. An additional questionnaire collected data about children and parents gender, age, and place of residence. The results highlighted interesting differences in mothers’ perceptions of their children (children’s behaviours and communication difficulties)according to their perceived relationship with the husband, and place of residence, and according to child’ s gender too. The results can be used in parental training’s programs that help parents to achieve positive transformations in their perceptions of their children via transforming their inter-parental relationship and accommodating their positive perceptions to the child’s age and gender.

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