Parenting Style and Parents' Educational Background that Contribute to Students' Absenteeism

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Parenting styles encompass various characteristics such as maturity, communication styles nurturance, warmth, and involvement in school activities. Authoritarian parenting styles suggest that children are expected to be submissive to their parent's demands, while parents were expected to be strict, directive, and emotionally detached. Permissive parenting styles connotes less parental restrictions. Similarly, parental educational level as it may impact the amount of involvement in their child's academic success and whether the impact is a direct or indirect influence.

METHODS

A non-experimental and descriptive type of research was adopted by the researcher in the study. The data reflected in the questionnaire about parent-respondents' in terms of the educational background was determined using the frequency counts and percentages scores. Likewise, the level of parental styles was revealed utilizing the mean and standard deviation. There were 34 parent-respondents in the study who are non-randomly but purposely selected because they meet certain criteria for the study. The researchers-made questionnaire was personally administered among identified participants in the study. Their responses were gathered, recorded, tabulated, analyzed, and interpreted.

RESULTS

There were 34 parent-participants participated in the study. There were 10 out of 20 mothers who did not finish elementary. However, there were 7 of 14 fathers who did not finish high school. It shows that the mean average of 3.85 indicates that the permissive style was strongly practiced. It further discussed that there was a significant relationship between the correlated variable in terms of parents' educational attainment with computed r-values of.8839 and -.2748. The p-values which are all lower than.05 level of significance justifies that a significant difference does exist. Therefore, the null hypothesis stating that there is no significant correlation between the parenting style and parents' educational background towards student absenteeism was rejected.

DISCUSSIONS

The researcher believes and recommends the empowerment of parental partnership between teacher and parent. Hence, parental education may influence the willingness or ability for parents to become involved in the teaching-learning process of their children. Furthermore, the regular contact with the parents is of great help in ensuring the regular attendance and positive academic performance of their children in school.