| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 99 === The Study on the Relations among Parenting Behaviors,
Peer Relationship and Depression of Adolescents
Mei-Shiang Wang
Abstract
The main purposes of this study were：(1) to understand the status quo of adolescents’ parenting behaviors, peer relationship, and depression, (2)to explore different demographic variables in parenting behaviors, peer relationship and depression, (3) to dissect the discrepancy between adolescents’ different parenting behaviors and depression, (4) to discuss and study the relationship between peer relationship and depression of adolescents, (5)to bring concrete findings and suggestions for the references of counseling practices and further study.
This study was done by literature review and questionnaire survey. The samples of the research are the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders of junior high school in Nantou County, including 516 persons of both sexes in total. The instruments of the research include Adolescents’ Depression Questionnaire, Peer Relationship Questionnaire, and Parenting Behaviors Questionnaire. All the data obtained are analyzed and treated in statistical ways, like descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s product-moment correlation. The findings of this research are as follows:
1. Nowadays, most parents nurture their children in an authoritative behavior and a neglecting behavior.
2. At present, the situation of adolescents’ peer relationship is under the average.
3. Nowadays, depression tendency of adolescents inclines towards the periphery between normality and mild degree of depression.
4. The parenting attitudes of adolescents’ parents have significant differences in gender. The parenting attitudes of adolescents’ parents have no significant differences on different grades,birth order, and siblings.
5. Adolescents’ peer-relationship has significant differences on different sexes, and female students are better than male students. Adolescents’ peer relationship has no significant differences on different grades,birth order,and the number of siblings.
6. Adolescents’ depression has differences on different sexes, and female students are more serious than male students.
7. Adolescents’ depression has no differences on different grades.
8. Students who are the only children in the family are more likely to have depression tendency than the oldest children. Besides, the number of children in a family above 5 persons is more likely to have depression tendency than that below 5 persons.
9. Children have lower degree of depression tendency under the parents’”enlightened authority“ and “indulgent” behaviors；besides, they have higher degree of depression tendency under the parents’”authoritative” and “neglecting” behaviors .
10. Peer relationship and depression tendency show significantly negative correlation between each other；that is, students have lower degree of depression tendency if they have better peer relationship.
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