Suvremena psihologija, Vol. 8 No. 2, 2005.
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Parental implicit theories of childrens' intelligence: gender and educational differences
Janko Ferenčić
Gordana Keresteš
Denis Bratko
Sažetak
Results of the study of parental lay (implicit) theories of childrens' intelligence are presented. The sample consisted of 108 parents of pre-school children. The aim of the study was to examine the differences between implicit theiroes of mothers and fathers, as well as the differences of parental lay conceptions of childrens' intelligence as a function of education. Implicit theories were measured with the adaptation of the Okagaki and Sternberg (1993) questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of six scales which were organized in two broad dimensions of parental implicit theories. The first dimension represents non-cognitive aspects of implicit theories, namely The importance of social skills, The importance of self-management and The importance of task motivation. The second dimension represents cognitive aspects of implicit theories of childrens' intelligence, namely The importance of problem-solving skills, The importance of verbal skills and The importance of creativity. The analyses of variance (ANOVA's) yield the main gender effect for the non-cognitive aspects of parental implicit theories. Mothers, rather than fathers, valued the importance of task motivation more. On the other hand, there were no significant gender differences in cognitive aspects of parental implicit theories. However, the main effect of parental education was found for cognitive aspects of implicit theories. Well-educated parents, rather than less educated, valued the cognitive aspects of implicit theories more, namely the problem solving skills, verbal skills and creativity. Beside that, gender and education interaction was found for subscale of verbal skills and creativity, as well as for the composite of cognitive aspects of implicit theories. Well-educated fathers valued these cognitive aspects more than less educated fathers, while the difference was marginal among mothers.
Ključne riječi
Implicit theory; lay theory; intelligence; parents; children; sex differences; education
Hrčak ID:
3259
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2005.
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