Query: social development and parents attitude

title: The Influence of Parents` Child rearing Attitudes perceived by Elementary School Students on their Self efficacy and Social Development
abstract: This study is to figure out how parents' child rearing attitudes perceived by elementary school students influence on the kids' self efficacy and social development, so that desirable nurturing attitudes can be advised for parents for the better teaching kids at home. This research shows that parents' nurturing attitudes perceived by their kids influence meaningfully on the child's self efficacy and social development. In particular, as the children see their parents focusing more on achievements, their self efficacy is higher and they are more sociable. in other words, it is important and advised for parents to have achievement oriented maturing attitude setting high goals and encouraging their kids to achieve them by working hard patiently.

title: Influential factors on children's reading and writing development: the perspective of parents in a Swedish context
abstract: Early reading and writing skills are important in order to develop and succeed, both in school and later on in life. The aim of this study was to shed light on influential factors on children's reading and writing development from the perspective of parents. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model for human development was adopted as a theoretical framework. The researchers made use of retrospective life history oriented interviews with 27 parents conducted as part of a larger research project in Sweden. In the interviews, the parents described factors that can be interpreted as being influential. A thematic analysis technique generated nine themes: Child's abilities and engagement; Genetics and parents' abilities; More able siblings and peers; Involved parents and grandparents; Teacher competence, attitude and collaborations; Social climate in preschool and preschool class; Free play and child initiated reading and writing activities; Toys and books; and Extra support provisions and stimulation. Implications are discussed.

title: Social competence among children of alcoholic and nonalcoholic parents
abstract: A child's social competence depends on a number of factors including family atmosphere. Parental alcoholism effects the development of child directly or indirectly. Children of alcoholics (COAs) may have lower social competence. Addressing this problem at the earliest can significantly reduce the problems in future. The objective of the study is to compare the social competence between COAs and non COA.  A cross sectional comparative study design was used. The study was conducted at a selected government high school located in Bengaluru urban. One hundred COA and 100 non COA were recruited for the study by using simple random sampling technique. Children of Alcoholic Screening Test (modified) and Social Competence Scale were used in the study.  Results show that there is statistically significant difference between COAs and non COAs with regard to prosocial attitude, social competition, social leadership, social tolerance, social maturity, social skills, and overall skills.  The study concludes that COAs have low level of social competence.

title: Perception Attitude and Practices of Parents in Okene Nigeria towards Girl Child Education
abstract: Girls and boys have the same rights to a quality education. But the 'gender gap' becomes painfully evident when looking at who is in the classroom. The need for the girl child education in the society is not only imperative but it is indispensable for the socio economic development of Nigeria. Nigerian girls are still disadvantaged in their access to education. The study was therefore conducted to assess the perception, attitude and practices of parents in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State towards girl child education. It was a descriptive cross sectional study aimed at providing baseline information for subsequent intervention. The sample size was 370 parents with children of school age. Equal number of male and female respondents was sampled and the sampling technique was multistage sampling technique. Data collection was through interviewer administered questionnaire. The data obtained was analyzed by the computer using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software package, version 15. The study revealed that the perception and attitude of respondents towards girl child education was good. Over 90% of respondents were aware that education is a child right. Over 90% of them also think that enrolling girl child in primary school is important. Most of the respondents believed in enrolling their girl child in primary school between the ages of two and five and about 90% of them thought that female child should be educated up to the tertiary level. There was still a lag in primary school completion among girls with a higher value when compared with the boys. The percentage of female drop out from primary school was 8.2% compared with 2.7% for males. Poverty was the major cause of female children's school dropout among respondents.

title: What Personal/Social Skills are Important for Young Children Commencing Kindergarten? Exploring teachers' and parents' insights
abstract: This article reports on a study that investigated the importance of children possessing personal/social skills when starting kindergarten, from teachers' and parents' perspectives. The study involved a sample of 16 kindergarten teachers and 63 parents of kindergarten children from government schools in one of the six education districts within the Tasmanian Department of Education. Data was collected through mailed questionnaires, which utilised 22 personal/social skills sourced from the Early Social Skills brochure (Department of Education, 2002a) and the Kindergarten Development Check (Department of Education, 2003) Results from the study support the importance of socially preparing children for the kindergarten environment, with emphasis being placed upon children commencing kindergarten with many of the specified personal/social skills. It was revealed that there was a lack of congruence between teachers' and parents' perceptions in respect of some items, in the areas of 'attitude to learning' and 'social communication' This indicates that there may be inconsistent expectations between home and school which have the potential to impact negatively upon a child's personal/social development.

title: Parents' attitudes towards their children with cerebral palsy
abstract: A negative attitude towards disability from family not only impacts upon a child directly, but also adds to the existing stress levels of a family. It can be concluded the parental attitudes are assumed to be associated with the psychosocial development of children. The aim of this study was to assess parents' attitudes towards their children with cerebral palsy (CP) and to examine the relationship between parental attitudes, emotional and behavioural problems, and other factors related to a child with CP and their parents. Parents of 70 children with CP (aged 6 13 years) completed questionnaires assessing parental attitudes and the Social and Emotional Behavioural Problematic scale. The results indicated that most parents had moderate attitudes towards their children with CP, although 40.7% of parents held negative attitudes. The results also revealed that there were statistically significant moderate negative correlations between parental attitudes, internalising behavioural problems and child order, and significant moderate positive correlations between parental attitudes, level of education, and type of school. Regression analysis revealed that internalising behaviour problems, aggression, child order, level of disability, parental income, and type of school contributed significantly to the variation in the prediction of parental attitudes towards their children with CP. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations are suggested.

title: Development and validation of a questionnaire measuring factors associated with physical activity in adolescents
abstract: to develop a questionnaire to measure factors associated with physical activity (PA) in adolescents and analyze its reliability and validity.  a total of 248 adolescents from 14 to 19 years old took part in this study. The factors associated with PA measured were: attitude, self efficacy, social support of PA and perceived environment. Cronbach's alpha (a) and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to test reliability, and exploratory factor analysis to evaluate validity.  attitude was measured as a single factor (attitude: a=0.76, ICC=0.89) self efficacy consisted of two factors: resources for PA (a=0.76, ICC=0.75) and social support and motives for engaging in PA (a=0.76, ICC=0.67) social support was measured as two factors: support for PA from friends (a=0.90, ICC=0.89) and support for PA from parents (a= 0.81, ICC=0.91) and the environment was measured as three factors: access to and attractiveness of places to engage in PA (a=0.69, ICC=0.82) security/safety when engaging in PA (a=0.73, ICC=0.67) and general infrastructure of the neighborhood (a=0.70, ICC=0.75) CONCLUSIONS: the questionnaire exhibited satisfactory validity and reliability and can be recommended for studies investigating adolescents.

title: Parenting Styles and Child Social Development
abstract: During the first years of life thought by many to be a unique period of human development parents assume special importance. As parents guide their young children from complete infantile dependence into the beginning stages of autonomy, their styles of caregiving can have both immediate and lasting effects on children's social functioning in areas from moral development to peer play to academic achievement. Ensuring the best possible outcome for children requires parents to face the challenge of balancing the maturity and disciplinary demands they make to integrate their children into the family and social system with maintaining an atmosphere of warmth, responsiveness and support. When parent conduct and attitude during the preschool years do not reflect an appropriate balance on these spectra, children may face a multitude of adjustment issues. What parenting styles best achieve this balance?

title: Education of parents and attitude towards school of their daughters and sons
abstract: This paper presents the results of the research the goal of which was to gain insight into the linkage between the attitude towards school and educational aspirations of female and male pupils and the aspects of their family environment which are gender marked (educational status of mothers and educational status of fathers as gender role indicators) The approach to research topic was developed by relying on ecological systems theory of development (Bronfenbrenner) and social cognitive theory of gender role development (Bussey and Bandura) Research comprised a representative sample of 2447 female and male pupils of eighth grade from 36 schools in Serbia, and data were obtained by using answers to the questionnaires referring to some aspects of family and school environment. This is an in depth analysis of data collected as part of the international study TIMSS 2007. Research findings can be expressed on two levels. The first female eighth grade pupils, compared to their male peers, have considerably higher educational aspirations, a more positive attitude towards school as learning environment, and in extracurricular everyday life they prefer activities which are encouraged by school contents. The second educational aspirations of male and female pupils are highly positively correlated with the accomplished educational level of the same gender parent, while attitude towards school and the type of extracurricular activities, both in boys/male pupils and girls/female pupils, stand in higher correlation with the accomplished level of education of the mother.

title: Happy parents' tweets
abstract: This article explores opinions and semantic orientation around fertility and parenthood by scrutinizing filtered Italian Twitter data. We propose a novel methodological framework relying on Natural Language Processing techniques for text analysis and social media corpora development, which is aimed at extracting sentiments from texts. A multi layered manual annotation for exploring sentiment and attitudes to fertility and parenthood was applied to Twitter data. The corpus was analysed through sentiment and emotion lexicons in order to highlight how affective language is used in this domain. It emerges that parents express a generally positive attitude towards children, while children are more critical towards parents. The corpus constitutes a first step to improve our understanding of attitudes towards fertility and parenthood in this kind of contents.