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Pedagogical Research, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2005.

Original scientific paper

AUTHORITARIAN PARENTAL CHILD REARING STYLE AS THE PREDICTOR OF SCHOOL UNDERACHIEVEMENT

Smiljana Zrilić ; Sveučilište u Zadru Stručni odjel za izobrazbu učitelja i odgojitelja predškolske djece

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Abstract

Varied and diverse implications of school underachievement of children with well developed intellectual abilities are becoming the frequent topic of numerous scientific studies. The purpose is to find the causes of its frequent spreading in all areas of the child’s personality. Educational field and low grades are only one of the indicators of school underachievement. Changes in behaviour and mood, as well as somatic manifestations and psychosomatic illnesses (such as headache, sickness, gastrointestinal problems and skin problems) indicate failure in the social and emotional field of child’s personality. Underachievement is the result of mutual relations among different factors and their dynamic saturation, and therefore it is very hard to completely elucidate all causal relationships which can result in school underachievement. Taking the multiple causes as the starting point, this study concentrates on the parental child rearing style and its predictive value for the school underachievement. As the beginning of adolescence is associated with the lack of interest for school, the sample in this study are the 8 th grade pupils. It has been shown that the authoritarian parental child rearing style results in pronounced school fobia and difficulties in social relations with peers, which could be the cause of school underachievement. On the contrary, the democratic rearing style is positively correlated with school achievement.

Keywords

adolescence; underachievement; emotional difficulties; social adjustment; family environment; authoritarian parents; democratic parental child rearing style

Hrčak ID:

139348

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139348

Publication date:

20.5.2005.

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