The Relationship between Perceived Parental Behaviors and Adolescents' Self- Esteem among Adolescents at Four Schools in East and West Wollega Zones of Oromia, Ethiopia
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2008-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The mam purpose of this study was to examme the relationships between
perceived parental behaviors (perceived parental monitoring, parental
involvement, parental support, and parental punitiveness) and adolescents' self
esteem. To this end, a questionnaire that consisted of 72 items was administered
to 303 adolescents, 118 girls and 185 boys whose ages ranged between 14 and
22 years old, selected from four general secondary and preparatory schools
found in East and West Wollega Zones of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The
questionnaire administered consisted of three parts: the first part consisted of 12
items that were used to tap socio--demographic characteristics of the
participants, the second part consisted of 25 items that were used to tap
participants' perceptions of parental behaviors and the third part consisted of 35
items that were used to quantify participants' self esteem. Analys is of the data
obtained from 303 participants using Pearson Product Moment correlation,
Biserial, Point- biserial, and Partial correlations revealed that perceived parental
monitoring, parental involvement, and parental support were positively related to
adolescents' self esteem, while perceived parental punitiveness was negatively
related to adolescents' self esteem. All the relations hips revealed were
statistically significant at 0.01 level of significance. Results of the study were in
the directions hypothesized and found to support findings of previous studies
conducted in other countries/ cultures . The implication of the study is that
parents should involve in their adolescents' lives, monitor them adequately,
provide them with necessary emotional support and minimize (or avoid) corporal
punishment and all forms of behaviors or actions that communicate punitiveness
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Relationship between Perceived Parental Behaviors