The Effect of Mother-Child Relation and Father Attitudes on Children’s Perceptions of Moral and Social Rules

Arzu Özyürek, Fatma Tezel Şahin

Abstract

In this study, the purpose is to examine the relationship between mother-child relation and father attitudes and the perspective on moral and social-conventional rules of the 6 year-old children attending to preschool education institutions. A total of 122 six-year-old children attending to preschool education institutions and their parents were included in the study group. Scale of Moral and Social-Conventional Rules Knowledge was used in order to collect the data regarding the children’s perspective on moral and social-conventional rule. Parental Acceptance - Rejection Questionnaire - Mother Form, PARQ was used in order to determine the mother-child relations. Family Attitude Inventory was used in order to determine the father attitudes. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used in the analysis of data. In conclusion, a significant relation was found between mothers’ Warmth and Love and Lack of Interest sub-dimensions of Parental Acceptance - Rejection Questionnaire - Mother Form and children’s perception of the moral rules; and there is also a significant relation between Democratic/Authoritative Child Care and Attitudes and Obedience sub-dimensions of Family Attitude Inventory of fathers and social punishment scores of the children (P<.05).

Keywords

Preschool period, Mother-child relations, Parents attitudes, Moral and social rules


DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15390/EB.2015.3672

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