Comparing Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Parents on the Family Unpredictability Scale

Research findings and clinical observations suggest that families with an alcoholic parent are more unpredictable. Alcoholic parents ( n = 25, 68% men, 68% Euro-American, M age = 38.6 yr.) and community parents ( n = 27, 52% men, 70% Euro-American, M age = 38.8 yr.) completed the self-report Family Unpredictability Scale of Ross and Hill. Alcoholic parents reported significantly higher (less predictability) scores on the subscales of Nurturance, Finances, and Discipline, as well as on the Total Family Unpredictability Scale ( ps < .01). This appears to be the first study on family unpredictability and parental alcoholism in which parental reports of multiple dimensions of unpredictability are used. We provide suggestions for research and clinical uses of the scale, especially pertaining to families with an alcoholic parent.

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Effectiveness of Guidance Programme on Impact of Parental Alcoholism among Adolescents in Selected Schools, Mangaluru, Karnataka

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology ◽

10.48175/ijarsct-1965 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 424-431

Author(s):

Dr. Greesha Jose ◽

Dr.Veena Gretta Tauro

Keyword(s):

Negative Correlation ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Family Interaction ◽

The Self ◽

Interaction Pattern ◽

Parental Alcoholism ◽

Guidance Programme ◽

And Coping ◽

Alcoholic Parent ◽

Alcoholic Parents

Alcoholism is a commonest growing disease of today’s modern society and affected to millions of Indians. Living with an alcoholic parent can have significant impact on adolescent leaving them into risk. The adolescent of alcoholic parents develop a sort of negligence from their parent make them to be isolated. They grow up with low self esteem, dysfunctional family interaction, insecurity and maladaptive coping is higher risk for them become an alcoholic. The present study aimed to find the effectiveness of guidance programme on impact of parental alcoholism among adolescents in selected schools, Mangaluru, Karnataka. An evaluative approach with one group pre-test - post test design was used. Purposive sampling method was used to select the adolescents of alcoholics. Out of 1420 adolescents screened by CAST and a total of 350 adolescents aged 12 – 15 years were identified as adolescents of alcoholic parent/s. The instruments such as Rosenberg self esteem scale, family interaction pattern scale, security inventory rating scale and coping check list was used for the data collection. The computed inferential statistics revealed that the guidance programme has made significant improvement in the self esteem (t = 60.149), family interaction (t = 30.082), security feeling (t = 30.082), and in coping (t =11.679) of adolescents of alcoholic parents. Computed Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation revealed that there was a low negative correlation(r = -0.041) between self esteem and family interaction, low negative correlation (r = -0.068) between security feelings with family interaction and low positive correlation between the levels of security feeling with self esteem (r = 0.116). Computed Chi Square showed that there was significant association between the selected demographic variable religion ,self esteem, sex, type of family and incomes with pre test scores of family interaction. The study concluded that the guidance program was highly effective in improving the self esteem, family interaction pattern, security felling and coping of adolescents of alcoholic parents.

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Overprotective, Percaya Diri dan Kemandirian Anak

Persona Jurnal Psikologi Indonesia ◽

10.30996/persona.v2i1.51 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Lisda Sutanto

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Child Development ◽

School Children ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

Sixth Grade ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Research Findings

Abstract. This research aims to find out the relationships among over protect-tive and self-confidence with autonomy. The study involved 118 sixth grade elementary school children age 12 to 13 years to complete self-report of auto-nomy, overprotective and self-confidence. The results of data measurements were analyzed with multiple regression. The results of analysis showed: 1) there is a significant relationship between overprotective and self-confidence with autonomy, 2) there was no correlation between over protective with auto-nomy, and 3) there is a positive and significant relationship between the self-confidence and autonomy. The research findings are discussed in the context of child development. Keywords: overprotective, self-confidence, autonomy

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Family Functioning in Adolescents with Perinatal HIV Infection

Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC) ◽

10.1177/2325958218774782 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 232595821877478

Author(s):

Orawan Louthrenoo ◽

Linda Aurpibul ◽

Peninnah Oberdorfer ◽

Virat Sirisanthana

Keyword(s):

Antiretroviral Therapy ◽

Family Functioning ◽

Hiv Infection ◽

Infected Group ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Control Group ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Perinatal Hiv ◽

The Family

This study aimed to assess family functioning in adolescents with perinatal HIV infection receiving antiretroviral therapy compared with healthy controls. Correlations between self-reported and caregiver-reported family functions were also evaluated. A sample of 195 participants including 65 perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and 130 healthy controls were enrolled. The total family functioning score in HIV-infected adolescents was significantly lower than that in healthy controls by self-report (105.86 vs 115.41; P ≤ .001). Caregivers of HIV-infected adolescents also reported lower scores of family functioning than those of controls (109.91 vs 114.98; P ≤ .001). Among the HIV-infected group, there was no or minimal correlation between the self-reported and caregiver-reported total scores of family functioning. However, there were moderate correlations between self-reported and caregiver-reported family functioning total scores in the control group. Overall, HIV-infected adolescents reported lower family functioning than healthy controls. Improved functioning in the family may help with better adjustment in perinatally HIV-infected adolescents.

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Setting the Children’s Teeth on Edge? The Influence of Parental Alcoholism on Children’s Wellbeing

Artha - Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.12724/ajss.32.1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Jini P Francis ◽

Viju Painadath Devassy

Keyword(s):

Psychosocial Development ◽

Rank Correlation ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Parental Alcoholism ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Family ◽

The Difference ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Alcoholic Parents

The research on the impact of alcoholism on the family indicates that alcoholism often poses threat to the wellbeing of the family, the most affected ones being the other spouse and the children. Alcoholism often poses serious risk to the emotional, cognitive, behavioural, physical and social wellbeing of the abuser, the partner and the children. Most of the researches have explored the impact of parental alcoholism on the negative outcome on psychosocial development of partners and children, very few documented studies have been carried out on the positive aspects of life such as wellbeing and futuristic hope in the children of alcoholic parents (COA). This study attempts to explore the relationship and the difference between QOL and Hope in COA and children of non-alcoholics (CONA). The study was conducted on a sample of 60 children each between the age of 12 to 15 from alcoholics and non-alcoholic parents drawn from a district of Kerala using purposive sampling technique. The measures used were QOL-BREF by WHO (1996) and Children Hope Scale (CHS) by Snyder et al. (1996). The data was first analyzed using the descriptive statistics, the normality of the data was checked using Shapiro Wilk test, Mann-Whitney U test was used to find the difference between the COA and CONA on QOL and Hope. The relationship between the variables was assed using Spearman rank correlation. The results of the study indicate that there is significant difference in QOL among the children of alcoholics and non-alcoholics. The COA demonstrated comparatively less Hope than the CONA, however there was no significant difference among them. The QOL and Hope were correlated only among the CONA. The study has implication for positive intervention for the COA, parental and school based interventions such as preventive, remedial and holistic counselling or therapy.

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Perspective of child development from cognition, emotion and behavior

Tesis Psicológica ◽

10.37511/tesis.v15n1a2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Diego Alejandro Calle Sandoval ◽

Lina Marcela Rojas Reina ◽

Clarena Zuluaga Álvarez

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Human Life ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

School Bullying ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Contextual Risk ◽

Family Perspective ◽

The Family ◽

And Behavior

Background:The main objective of this study is to describe the perspective of human life cycle in childhood, considering the variables cognition, emotion and behavior in the city of Armenia-Quindío, Colombia. Objective:It was proposed from the psychological discipline and from the particular interest of characterizing different age groups in the Colombian context, specifically in the Quindío region. Methodology: A quantitative methodological approach is proposed, given that it corresponds with the descriptive, analytical logic and with the intention of generalize the results. With a descriptive-transversal design, the battery SENA (Sistema de Evaluación para Niños y Adolescentes) was applied, oriented to collect information from multiple sources, in this opportunity was possible to work with a n = 75. The results were discriminated by type of source that provided the information, considering that young children do not respond to the self-report questionnaire, because it requires literacy skills that due to biological and school development conditions haven’t been achieved. A total of 75 questionnaires were applied from the family perspective, 47 from the self-report perspective and 28 from the school. Results:The results show that according to the self-report presented by the participants, 4 out of 5 children are involved in a situation of contextual risk for ages between 7 to 11 years old; from the family perspective, is considered that 1 out of 2 participants present risks like possible school bullying, risk of self-harm and risk of aggression or harm to others. In addition, possible effects on the development of executive functions and the presence of behavioral and emotional problems, possibly related to imbalances and mismatching from the context. Conclusion: Finally, it is considered fundamental to adopt a new form of approaching to the study of development and life cycle, which includes conditions closer to the population group of interest, taking into account individualdi fferences, the continuous and discontinuous form of development and conditions of the region where they belong.

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Measuring the Big Five in Self-Report and Other Ratings

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027//1015-5759.16.1.31 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 31-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Claudio Barbaranelli ◽

Gian Vittorio Caprara

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Structural Equation Models ◽

Error Variance ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Third Person ◽

Fit Indexes ◽

Response Modes

Summary: The aim of the study is to assess the construct validity of two different measures of the Big Five, matching two “response modes” (phrase-questionnaire and list of adjectives) and two sources of information or raters (self-report and other ratings). Two-hundred subjects, equally divided in males and females, were administered the self-report versions of the Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ) and the Big Five Observer (BFO), a list of bipolar pairs of adjectives ( Caprara, Barbaranelli, & Borgogni, 1993 , 1994 ). Every subject was rated by six acquaintances, then aggregated by means of the same instruments used for the self-report, but worded in a third-person format. The multitrait-multimethod matrix derived from these measures was then analyzed via Structural Equation Models according to the criteria proposed by Widaman (1985) , Marsh (1989) , and Bagozzi (1994) . In particular, four different models were compared. While the global fit indexes of the models were only moderate, convergent and discriminant validities were clearly supported, and method and error variance were moderate or low.

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Using the Rating Scale Model to Examine the Psychometric Properties of the Self-Efficacy Scale for Driver Competence

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000063 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 164-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anna Sundström

Keyword(s):

Psychometric Properties ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Measurement Precision ◽

The Self ◽

Test Theory ◽

Self Report ◽

Scale Model ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Two Samples

This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a self-report scale for assessing perceived driver competence, labeled the Self-Efficacy Scale for Driver Competence (SSDC), using item response theory analyses. Two samples of Swedish driving-license examinees (n = 795; n = 714) completed two versions of the SSDC that were parallel in content. Prior work, using classical test theory analyses, has provided support for the validity and reliability of scores from the SSDC. This study investigated the measurement precision, item hierarchy, and differential functioning for males and females of the items in the SSDC as well as how the rating scale functions. The results confirmed the previous findings; that the SSDC demonstrates sound psychometric properties. In addition, the findings showed that measurement precision could be increased by adding items that tap higher self-efficacy levels. Moreover, the rating scale can be improved by reducing the number of categories or by providing each category with a label.

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