THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES AND ADOLESCENTS’DISCIPLINARY BEHAVIOR:INTHECASEOFABAFIRANISASECONDARYANDPREPARATORYSCHOOLSTUDENT
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2019-06
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WOLKITE UNIVERSITY
Abstract
Themainpurposeofthisstudywastoexaminetherelationshipbetweenperceivedparentingstyles
andadolescents’disciplinarybehaviorinabafiransasecondaryschoolandPreparatorySchool.By
usingsimplerandomsampling87participantswereselectedfromgrade9andgrade11students.
Quantitativeresearchquestionnairewasadministeredtocollectdata.Thedatawereanalyzedby
descriptivestatisticssuchPearsonProductMomentCorrelationcoeficient.Correlationanalysis
showedsignificantrelationshipsbetweenadolescentdisciplinarybehaviorandthefourparenting
styles.TheresultrevealedthatAuthoritarianparentingstyletendedtobemoreprevalentthan
amongotherthreediferentparentingstyleandalsotheresultdeterminedthatauthoritative