The Impact of Parenting styles on attitudes and believes related to Juvenile delinquency
among students
Asfa Hanif
Psy-02-13
[Link] 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 [Link]
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
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External Examiner
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Chairperson
Certificate
It is to certify that [Link], 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 [Link] 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
Limited Multan
