Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022): January - June 2022
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Parenting practices of students' parents in a high school in the province of Salerno. An exploratory research

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  • Giuseppina Di Leva,
  • Nicole Nascivera,
  • Alfonso Davide Di Sarno
Giuseppina Di Leva
ISM stp
Nicole Nascivera
ISM stp
Alfonso Davide Di Sarno
ISM stp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32069/PJ.2021.2.157

Published 2022-06-06

Keywords

  • Key Words: parenting, Parenting Practices, school.

How to Cite

Di Leva, G., Nascivera, N., & Di Sarno, A. D. (2022). Parenting practices of students’ parents in a high school in the province of Salerno. An exploratory research. Phenomena Journal - International Journal of Psychopathology, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy, 4(1), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.32069/PJ.2021.2.157

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Abstract

This work represents a pretext to activate a renewed reflection on parenting and parenting styles in the schools. For this purpose an exploratory research was carried out in 2017, which saw the involvement of students’ parents of a high school in the Salerno province. The study revealed some dimensions of parenting such as: parental involvement in the activities of one's child, positive parenting, supervision of one's child, the type of discipline and punishment used by parents, also trying to highlight any differences between fathers and mothers. The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) a self-assessment questionnaire of parents' educational practices, was used as a tool. The APQ collects the parent's estimates on the frequency of educational behaviors during ordinary interactions with their child. It is among the most used assessment tools to detect the dimensions of parenting most related to the maintenance of behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence. The results show a high involvement of the parent in the life of their child and the use of positive parenting practices and adequate monitoring; the discipline is "almost never" inconsistent and the physical punishment "almost never" used. Mothers showed greater involvement in their children's lives and higher levels of positive parenting than fathers. They also show a high level of supervision over the conduct of their child and a greater inclination to use alternative disciplinary practices to the physical.

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