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The Influence Of Parenting Styles On Social Adjustment Among Secondary School Students
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But the progress of true maturity may be measured in part by
an individual’s growing awareness of and interest in, other persons,
together with an appreciation of their rights and desires and a
willingness to subordinate personal wishes to the greater good of the
greater number. Expanding the child’s social consciousness as he moves
toward maturity is an important training problem. The outcome represents
the difference between a “spoiled disagreeable, poorly adjusted child
and a likable youngster who is finding acceptable social adjustments.
An
examination of the location within a community of a child’s friends
will illustrate the foregoing point. As a very small child his friends
consist of relatives and children who are brought to the house to visit.
When the child is able to go about a bit, it will be found that he has a
concentration of friends in the immediate vicinity of his home, but
seldom anywhere else. A little later the friends will be somewhat more
scattered, but all in the same or the adjoining block. By the time he
enters elementary school his friendships may extend for two or three
blocks but the end of the first year it will be found that he knows
children scattered over most of the entire area served by his grade,
although his best friends are most likely to be those living in his
immediate neighbourhood. This dispersing process will be accelerated
with the individual’s entrance into junior and senior high school, until
a map of the dispersion of the adolescent’s friends will find them
spread rather widely over the community, and even outside of it,
although still with a strong concentration within the neighbourhood.
This condition will be particularly marked insofar as there are strong
socio-economic, racial, or national differences existing within the
community (Anderson, 2000)
1.3Statement of the Problem
The social
adjustment of children these days has been negative in the society; this
has been attributable to the type of parenting in which these highly
maladaptive children were reared and nurtured. Studies carried out by
Strausser (2001), showed that children’s social adjustment in the
community is not far fetched from the way they are brought up by their
parents. According to this finding, children who are socially deficient,
are mostly reared by parents whose styles of parenting were basically
authoritarian in nature. Children whose parents are very autocratic and
authoritarian, become highly aggressive, violent and autocratic to their
peers in the school and at home. This is because, they had learnt
aggression and violence from their parents who used force and high
handedness in bringing them up in the home.
Also, a child becomes
way-ward in the society because he is brought up by the permissive
parents who applied I-don’t-care attitude in bringing up the child.
Little wonder why most children of these days are recalcitrant,
obstinate, delinquent, harlotic, bullies, armed robbers, fighters,
examination cheats, depraved-minded, alcoholics, drug abusers, addicts,
violent demonstrators and destructive individuals in the school and at
home; cultists and gangsters etc. These vices are anti-social behaviours
that are perpetrated in the society by those whose parents may have
lacked the correct parental styles and patterns in child-rearing.
This
study therefore, set out to investigate the problem of parenting styles
on the social adjustment of secondary school adolescents in Lagos
State.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of parenting styles on social adjustment among secondary school students in Lagos Metropolis. To achieve this goal, the researcher formulated four hypotheses to guide the study.There is a significant influence of authoritative parenting style on student’s social adjustment.There is a significant influence of religious background on the parenting style of couples.There is a significant influence of ethnicity on parenting style among ... Continue reading---
