Police and Security, Vol. 33 No. 3, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.33.3.1
Perceived Neighborhood Danger and Parenting Styles
Karlo Bojčić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Parents have a key role in socialization and ensuring the undisrupted development of the child. In addition to the parents, there are many other factors that affect the development of the child, and among them are the characteristics of the neighborhood in which the family lives. The assumption of the Family Stress Model is that deleterious characteristics of the neighborhood indirectly affect the child by acting through its more proximal environments, that is, by affecting the parents. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the association between the parental perceived danger in the neighborhood and their parenting style. The survey was conducted on a convenient sample of 393 parents (326 mothers and 67 fathers) living in one of six municipalities in Slavonia, who have children between the ages of four and nine. Authoritative style was found to be the most common parenting style, followed by permissive and authoritarian. The majority of parents perceive low danger in the neighborhood, with almost a third of them not perceiving any danger in the neighborhood. Correlation analysis revealed a negative correlation between parental perception of danger in the neighborhood and their authoritative parenting style, and a positive correlation between parental perception of danger in the neighborhood and their authoritarian parenting style.
Keywords
parents, parenting style, neighborhood danger, fear of crime
Hrčak ID:
320427
URI
Publication date:
30.9.2024.
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