Parenting and childrearing attitudes among high school students.
A descriptive study to assess parenting and childrearing attitudes was conducted among 502 high school students in a greater metropolitan area in the Southeast. The Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (Bavolek, 1984) was used to identify students' scores on four constructs associated with abusive parenting: inappropriate parental expectations, lack of empathy toward the child, value of physical punishment, and parent-child role reversal. Several group differences were found by sex, race, grade, and birth order. Ten percent of students scored consistently low and could be targeted for education programs to increase parenting knowledge and skill.
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University of Alabama School of Nursing, Birmingham 35294-1210.
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Buckner
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D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control; D002668:Child Rearing; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011678:Punishment; D012380:Role