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THE MEASUREMENT OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES AND THEIR RELATION TO BOYS' BEHAVIOUR
Author(s) -
GIBSON H. B.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1968.tb02015.x
Subject(s) - psychology , juvenile delinquency , developmental psychology , authoritarianism , scale (ratio) , social psychology , politics , political science , law , democracy , physics , quantum mechanics
S ummary . Separate attitude inventories for fathers and mothers relating to the upbringing of children, were used in a survey concerning 411 primary school boys representative of an urban, working‐class area. Analysis of responses produced scales of authoritarianism for both fathers and mothers, and a scale of under‐concern for mothers. Scores on these scales were found to be slightly related to bad behaviour in school and later delinquency on the part of the boys. The rate of parental response was rather poor, and it was shown to be significantly related to social handicap and educational and occupational status. Absence of completed inventories was found to be as much related to bad conduct and delinquency as were the attitude scales. The investigation explores the practicability of studying parental attitudes and relating them to objective criteria concerning children.