Educational Issues, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53577/oot.7.2.5
How and Based on which Sources Parents Gather Information about Children’s Growth and Development
Ivica Iveković
orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-6493
Abstract
Nowadays, the education of parents for parenting has become omnipresent. The very idea of parenting education is aimed to provide support and increase parental competence. Various opportunities for education and providing information about the growth, development and upbringing of the child are offered to parents. Numerous previous studies show that parents can obtain information in different ways. The aim of this research was to determine how parents collected information about their child's growth and development. In addition, the research wanted to determine whether parents collected more information before or after the birth of a child and whether there was a difference with regard to the gender of parents and child, number of children, age and level of education of parents. The sample of respondents consisted of parents of preschool children. Data were collected using a questionnaire. Three factors were isolated, i.e. the ways in which parents collected information: group, individual, and combined group-individual. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences with regard to the gender of the parents, the level of education of the parents, the number of children and the gender of the children when it came to parents’ use of information sources. Before and after the birth of a child, parents use different sources of information, which means that parents collect information about the growth and development of their child from different sources before and after the birth of the child.
Keywords
Individual, group and combined method; preschool age children; sources of information; growth and development of the child
Hrčak ID:
325453
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Publication date:
27.12.2024.
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