Parental Educational Styles According To The Children's Gender

Author(s):

Mª del Remedio González-Barrón(presenting / submitting)Ana Ordóñez López Inmaculada Montoya Castilla Vicente Prado-Gascó

Conference:

ECER 2013

Network:

14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research

Format:

Poster

Session Information

14 SES 10, Interactive Poster Session

Interactive Poster Session

Time:

2013-09-12

15:30-17:00

Room:

FUAYE

Chair:

Joana Lúcio

Contribution

The parental educational styles stem from the interaction of different attitudes and the behavior of parents when educating their children. These styles directly influence their behavior, and physical, social, cognitive and emotional development. However, the literature has shown that it is not only the relevant educational style developed by the parents which is of importance, but how children perceive it. The aim of this paper is to study whether the perception of parental educational styles differ depending on the gender of the children.

Method

It was administered to 1476 Spanish children between 8 and 12 years old (Mean= 9.89, SD= 1.26), the participants were evenly distributed, from state schools. Participation was voluntary, and informed of the confidentiality of data. The assessment instruments used were the Family Educational Practices Questionnaire (PEF) and the Autoevaluative Child Adaptation Test (TAMAI). The evaluation took place during school hours, so was counterbalanced. The data was statistically treated using SPSS (V.20), and was performed using t tests for independent samples

Expected Outcomes

The results indicate that there are significant gender differences when assessing the overall educational style of both parents. The girls perceive their parents to have a balanced style, while the boys perceive their parents to be more authoritarian. However, there are also significant gender-based differences, when the educational style of the mother and father are assessed separately. It has been observed that there are gender-based differences between the perception and evaluation of the educational style developed by parents. However, it is unclear whether the differences are due to the fact that children differ depending on gender perception, or if these are a consequence of the various ways in which parents may behave.

References

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Author Information

Mª del Remedio González-Barrón (presenting / submitting)

UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA

PERSONALITY

Valencia

Ana Ordóñez López

UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Spain

Inmaculada Montoya Castilla

UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Spain

Vicente Prado-Gascó

UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Spain

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