Introduction:
Most parents, now a day realize that their children should have a healthy sense of Self-esteem. When parents and teachers of young children talk about the need for good self-esteem, they usually mean that children should have ‘good feelings’ about themselves. Self esteem is related to children’s feeling of belonging to a group and being able to adequately function in their group when children become members of social groups, they are expected to control their impulses and adopt the rules of family and community in which they are growing. Hence, successful adjusting to these groups helps to strengthen feelings of belongingness to them. It is also learnt from the available literature that the parental discipline may get influenced by the personality characteristics of parents, their socio-cultural background and attitude towards children, hence family background factors and personal profile of parents are considered as independent variables for the present study. The basic purpose of studying this problem is to find ways for rooting out a child’s negative self-image perception at its budding stage, by searching and then removing the attributed factors. In order to achieve this, the parental interaction with their children is considered to be a pertinent aspect of vital importance to develop a faculty for building positive self-image in children.
Objectives:
To correlate disciplinary strategies of parents with self-esteem.
Tools: Parental Disciplinary Practices Inventory: For the measurement of parental discipline the adolescents’ behaviour has been studied by the researcher and the responses of parents were observed accordingly, as researcher herself is a mother of adolescent children. The need for development of instrument on the basis of situational requirement was felt. Due efforts have been made and the instrument has been developed. To test the internal consistency of the items, split-half reliability was tested by computing odd and even numbered items and coefficient of correlation was drawn in between two series of scores. The coefficient of correlation of scores observed to be 0.54 and 0.98 indicating internal consistency in items. The validity of the test was also established by relating self-esteem score with the explanatory correlated characteristic of scholastic achievement score tested and find the value Chi. Square=10.21 insignificant difference confirm association in between two different characteristics. It was hypothesized that the children with high self-esteem level shows good scholastic achievement. The coefficient correlation between self-esteem score and scholastic achievement score was found to be significant at 0.01 probability. Thus, with the help of content and construct validity with children’s high level of self-esteem.
Self-esteem inventory- (Developed and standardized)
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Self-esteem of children seems to be affected by the amount of mother’s formal education (0.50), suggesting that mothers who complete high school may possess qualities that promote greater feelings of confidence and self-worth in their sons and daughters. Summary of regression coefficient of parental discipline on Self-esteem.
When parental disciplinary practices regressed on self-esteem of children, it was found that, disciplinary practices are consistently related to self-esteem. Warm, positive parenting lets children know that they are accepted as competent, worthwhile human beings. Moreover, firm but appropriate expectations, backed up with reasoning and explanations, seem to help the children to make sensible choices and evaluate their own behaviour against reasonable standards. In contrast, highly coercive parenting communicates as sense of inadequacy to children. It suggests that their behaviour needs to be controlled by adults because they are ineffective in managing it themselves.
The regression analysis has revealed that the total contribution explained in results, varies upto 33%, indicating the variables under study are contributing satisfactorily or the contribution explained by the variables was sufficient to determine that the impact of all independent variables related to home background and parental discipline on self-esteem of adolescents. Children with parents having inductive discipline, who provide a reasonable expectation for behaviour, feel especially good about them and adjust properly with their surrounding. Adolescents were quite explanatory to satisfy and established the relationship.
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