The Impact of Parenting styles on attitudes and believes related to Juvenile delinquency

among students

Asfa Hanif

Psy-02-13

M.sc Applied Psychology

Session 2013-2015

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY,

MULTAN
The Impact of Parenting styles on attitudes and believes related to Juvenile delinquency

among students

Asfa Hanif

Psy-02-13

Session 2013-2015

A dissertation submitted to
Department of Applied Psychology
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the
Degree of M.sc
In
Applied Psychology

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY,

MULTAN
The Impact of Parenting styles on attitudes and believes related to Juvenile delinquency

among students

Asfa Hanif

Approved by

____________________
Supervisor

____________________
External Examiner

____________________
Chairperson
 Certificate

It is to certify that M.sc, dissertation entitled “The Impact of Parenting styles on attitudes and

believes related to Juvenile delinquency among students” presented by Asfa Hanif has been

approved for the partial fulfillment of the degree of M.sc Applied Psychology to the Department

of Applied Psychology Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan.

Dr. Sarwat Sultan

Supervisor
 Acknowledgements

I am thankful to Allah Almighty and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who gave me strength

to complete my work and blessed me in whole life. I would like to express my gratitude to my

supervisor madam Maria Anwar Khan, for sharing her ideas and interests with me about my

study. Her contribution boosted my confidence and helped me in finishing my study in time.

. I would like to thanks my mother Irtifa Muzammil for her good support, emotional

backing & confidence in me has always boosted me to work whole heartedly. Lastly, I also want

to show my gratefulness to all the participants who spared their precious time in answering my

questionnaires.

Asfa Hanif
 Dedication

Dedicated to my loving Mother

Irtifa Muzammil,

Who encouraged me in every step of my life.

 Abstract

The study investigated the influence of parenting styles on students’ attitude toward

delinquency. 100 sample sizes were used for the study. There were 2 questionnaires parental

authority questionnaire (PAQ) and attitude toward delinquency (ATD). There were 5 research

hypotheses were designed and formulated for the purpose of the study. Correlation, Regression

and ANOVA statistic was used for the analyses of the study. Irrespective of gender, location and

age, the results of the analyses show that authoritarian parenting style of mother effectively

predicts students’ attitude toward delinquency while authoritative and permissive did not. In

parenting style of father permissive parenting style of father effectively predicts students’

attitude toward delinquency while authoritarian and authoritative did not. This study also

revealed that the age factor also affects the parenting styles and attitudes toward delinquency.

The age 16-18 shows higher rate of delinquency.

 Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgme I

nts

Abstract I

List of Tables Vi

List of Vii

Annexure

Introduction 1

Parenting Styles 1

Authoritarian Parenting 2

Authoritative Parenting 3

Permissive Parenting 4

Uninvolved Parenting 4

Dimensions of Parenting 5

Parental Monitoring 6

Parental Discipline 9

Other theories of parenting style 11

Merits and demerits of parenting styles 14

Maccoby and Martin’s (1983) Two-Dimensional Framework

for Permissive Parenting 16

Social class and parenting styles 16

Juvenile Delinquency 17
Divorce and Delinquency 18

Effects of Parenting and Attachment on Deviant Behavior 19

Theoretical Perspective 23

The Mythologies behind Custody-Access-Support 28

Literature Review on parenting styles 29

Literature Review on Delinquency 35

Stepfamilies and Delinquency 36

Parenting Styles and Delinquency 36

Parenting and juvenile Social development 39

Intermediate Influences and the Impact of Parenting Styles

on Delinquency 42

Objectives of the Study 48

Model of Parenting Styles and Juvenile Delinquency 48

Hypotheses of the Study 49

Method 49

Participants 49

Intervention 49

Procedure 51

Results 53

Discussion 57

Conclusion 61

Limitations 62

Suggestions 63
 References 64

Annexures 79

List of Tables

Table No Title

Table 1 Mean & SD for the Scores of Employees Perceiving Organizational 101
Politics on Six Upward Influence Tactics (n = 432)

Table 2 Differences In the Job Attitudes of Employees Perceiving (n=160) and 101
not Perceiving Organizational Politics (n=160)

Table 3 Means and Standard Deviations for Six Groups of Employees using 102
Upward Influence Tactics on JSS, OC, and OCB (n = 432)

Table 4 One Way Analysis of Variance for the Scores of Employees using 103
Upward Influence Tactics on JSS, OCQ, and OCB

Table 5 Multiple Comparisons for Six Groups of Employees using on the JSS 104

Table 6 Multiple Comparisons for Six Groups of Employees using on the OCQ 106

Table 7 Multiple Comparisons for Six Groups of Employees using on the OCB 108

Table 8 Frequencies and Percentages for Employees Perceiving Organizational 109

Politics’ Scores within the Groups of Low, Middle, and Top Levels of
Management (n=432)

Table 9 Means and Standard Deviations for Six Groups of Employees 110
Categorized as Low, Middle, and Top Levels of Management using
Upward Influence Tactics on JSS, OC, and OCB

Table 10 One Way Analysis of Variance for the Scores of Employees Working at 112
Low, Middle, and Top on JSS, OCQ, and OCB
 List of Annexures

Annexure No Title

Annexure 1 Informed Consent and Demographic Variable Sheet 130

Annexure 2 Perception of Politics Scale 131

Annexure 3 Upward Influence Scale 132

Annexure 4 Job Satisfaction Survey 133

Annexure 5 Organizational Commitment Questionnaire 136

Annexure 6 Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale 138

Annexure 7 Letter from the Department of Applied Psychology to Collect the 140
Data
Annexure 8 Letter from Organization PEPSI-COLA Bottler Multan 141

Annexure 9 Letter from Organization COCA-COLA Multan 142

Annexure 10 Letter from Mahmood Textile Mills Limited Multan 143

Annexure 11 Hierarchal Structure of Employees in PEPSI-COLA Bottler Multan 144

Annexure 12 Hierarchal Structure of Employees in COCA-COLA Multan 145

Annexure 13 Hierarchal Structure of Employees in Mahmood Textile Mills 146

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