| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 生活應用科學研究所碩士在職專班 === 96 === Related Research on Parenting Styles and Parents’ Marital Conflict as Perceived by Junior High School Students
Abstract
This study aims to examine how junior high school students with different background variables perceive parenting styles and parents’ marital conflict and how such perceptions vary and correlate. It also examines the predictive power of parenting styles to parents’ marital conflict. This study adopts a questionnaire survey method and samples seventh, eighth and ninth grade students from both public and private junior high schools of Taipei City. A total of 1,367 effective samples were gathered after purposive sampling. The measurement tools used by this study include personal background survey, parenting styles scale and parents’ marital conflict scale. This paper performs statistical analysis on frequency distribution, percentages, mean, standard deviations, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The findings of this study are as follows:
1. Summary of Background Variables of Junior High School Students:
Male students account for 51.6% of the total, while female students account for 48.4%. Seventh grade students account for 34.1% of the total, ninth grade students for 33.4% and eighth grade students 32.5%. Two-parent families account for the largest group, i.e. 84.6% of the total, three-generation families 13% and extended families only 2.4%. Families with high social and economic status account for 52.7%, families with middle social and economic status 32.2% and families with low social and economic status only 15.1%.
2. Background Variables of Junior High School Students and Differences in Parenting Styles:
Junior high school students of different grades exhibit significant differences in their perception of parenting styles. Junior high school students from families of different social and economic statuses exhibit significant differences in the perceived parenting styles of their fathers. Sex and family types do not contribute significant differences.
3. Background Variables of Junior High School Students and Differences in Parents’ Marital Conflict:
Junior high school students of different grades and from families of different social and economic statuses exhibit significant differences in their perceptions of the intensity of their parents’ marital conflict and resolution of conflict situations. Sex and family types do not contribute significant differences.
4. The perceptions of parents’ marital conflict by junior high school students exhibit significant differences in accordance with different parenting styles.
5. The perception of junior high school students of parenting styles and parents’ marital conflict are correlated.
6. Background Variables of Junior High School Students and Predictability of Parents’ Marital Conflict:
Junior high school students, both male and female, have the ability to predict the frequency of their parents’ marital conflict and resolution of conflict situations. Junior high school students of different grades have the ability to predict the intensity of their parents’ marital conflicts, conflict frequency and resolution of conflict situations. Junior high school students from different types of families have the ability to predict the intensity of their parents’ marital conflict. Junior high school students from families of different social and economic statuses have the ability to predict the intensity of their parents’ martial conflict and the resolution of the conflict situation.
7. Perceptions by Junior High School Students of Parenting Styles and Predictability of Parents’ Marital Conflict:
The more junior high school students perceive their fathers as being
authoritarian, the lower the perceived intensity and frequency of their
parents’ marital conflict and the better the perception of their resolution of the situation. How junior high school students perceive their mothers’ parenting styles has no significant predictability on their parents’ marital conflict.
This study proposes some points for discussion and suggestions based on its findings so as to serve as a reference to parents, teachers, education and parent education specialists, marriage and family therapists and for future researchers.
Keywords: junior high school students, perception, parenting styles, parents’ marital conflict
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