Parenting Styles and Kindergarten Pupil's Behavioral Attribute Skills

Authors

  • Minaflor R. Dimapilis

Keywords:

parenting styles, behavioral attribute skills, parenting education, childrearing

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the predominant parenting styles of selected Kindergarten parents and their observation on the behavioral attribute skills of their children at Sta. Cristina Elementary School and Piela Elementary School at the City Schools Division of Dasmariñas during School Year 2017-2018. A total 26 teachers and 270 parents participated as respondents to this study. The descriptive method was employed in this study, because this method of research attempts to determine the extent of a relationship between two or more variables using statistical data. The data, relationships, and distributions of variables were studied only such as those parenting styles and behavioral attribute skills of the kindergarten pupils. The following null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance and it showed that, there is no a significant relationship between the parenting styles and the observable behavioral attribute skills of the kindergarten-respondents. Results revealed that permissive parenting style was Almost Typical among the respondents; the 12 observable behavioral attribute skills assessed by the teachers and the parents were Frequently Observed while non-hyper activity skills (3.22) was just Observable; and only attention skills and non-withdrawal skills showed significant relationship to uninvolved type of parenting.

Published

2018-10-18