Integral personal and interpersonal characteristics of parents of children with complex developmental disorders

Thepurposeof the research is to study integral personal and interpersonal characteristics of parents bringing up children with complex developmental disorders. The article is based on the following psychodiagnostics methods: Parental Attitude Questionnaire (A. Varga & V. Stolin); Family Relationship Analysis (E. Eidemiller, V. Yustytskis); PARI (Parental Attitude Research Instrument) (E. Schaefer & Bell); Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI) for studying personal characteristics; N. Kurhanska & T.A. Nemchyn method to assess mental activation, interest, emotional tonus, tension, and comfort; “The semantic differential” (Ch.Osgood) for quantitative and qualitative value indexing; V. Kahan & I. Zhuravlova Inventory for Parental Attitudes to the Child’s Disease; “Sentence Completion Test.” (J. Sacks & L. Sidney). Factorization based on principal component analysis (PCA) followed by Varimax rotation of psychological scales has made it possible to gain a model of personal and interpersonal characteristics of parents bringing up children with complex developmental disorders. Researchresults. It has been specified personal characteristics in the form of dominant-aggressive, psychasthenic, extraversive, sthenic-introversive personal dispositions, which together form a marital subsystem. The research has outlined indulgent, authoritarian, constructive, phobic-indulgent, liberal-anxious educational systems that comprise a child-parent subsystem in the factor model of personal and interpersonal characteristics of par-ents. Conclusions. It is stated that substantial nature and particularities of integral personal and inter-personal factors, which have been noticed in parents bringing up children with complex developmental disorders, are personal predicators of the effectiveness of their psychological follow-up. Keywords:psychological follow-up, personal disposition, educational subsystem, interpersonal relations. Метоюстатті є дослідження інтегральних особистісних та міжособистісних характеристик батьків, які виховують дітей з комплексними порушеннями розвитку. Використано такі психодіагностичні методики: опитувальники для вимірювання параметрів батьківського ставлення (А.Варга, В.Ст олін); для аналізування сімейних взаємин (Е.Ейдеміллер, В.Юстицкіс); тест-опитувальник РАRІ (Е.Шефер, Р.Белл) для вивчення батьківських настановлень; Фрайбурзький багатофактор-ний особистісний опитувальник (FPI) для дослі-дженняособистісних характеристик; методику урганської, Т.А.Немчин для оцінки психічноїактивації, інтересу, емоційного тонусу, напруги та комфортності; “Семантичний диференціал” (Ч.Осгу д) для кількісного та якісного індексування значень; опитувальник В.Кагана та І.Журавльової для діагностики ставлення батьків до хвороби дитини; методика “Незакінчені речення” (Дж. Сакс, Л.Сідней). Факторизація методом головних компонент з наступним варімакс-обертанням матриці психологічних шкал дала змогу отримати модель особистісних та міжособистісних характеристик батьків дітей з комплексними порушеннями розвитку. Результатидослідження.З’ясовано особистісні характеристики у вигляді домінантно-агресивної, психастенічної, екстравертованої, стенічно-інтровертованої особистісних диспозицій, що разом утворюють шлюбну підсистему. Встановлено потуральну, авторитарну, конструктивну, фобічно-поблажливу, ліберально-тривожну виховні системи, які утворюють дитячо-батьківську підсистему у факторній моделі особистісних і міжособистісних характеристик батьків. Висновки. Констатовано, що змістовний характер і особливості інтегральних особистісних і міжособистісних чинників, які були з’ясовані у досліджуваних батьків дітей з комплексними порушеннями розвитку, є особистісними предикторами ефективності їх психологічного супроводу. Ключовіслова: психологічний супровід, особистісна диспозиція, виховна підсистема, міжособистісні взаємини.

PARENTAL ATTITUDE AS A PREDICTOR OF STUDENTS MOTIVATION AND INTEREST IN LEARNING FRENCH LANGUAGE

The increase in economic globalization has created the need for the promotion of foreign languages in Nigeria. As an official second language in Nigeria, the French language has not received the desired attention in the countrys educational system as most students show less motivation and interest in learning the French language. Perhaps, insinuations suggest a widespread negative attitude towards the teaching and learning of the French language in the school system. Thus, the primary objective of the present study was to explore parental attitudes as a factor that could predict the variation in students motivation and interest in learning the French language. The studys participants included adults identified as parents, and they were randomly pooled from different locations in Kogi State, Nigeria. They completed a self-report measure to ascertain their overall attitude towards the French language. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted, and the simple regression analysis revealed that parental attitude significantly predicted students motivation and interest in learning French. The study concluded that parents attitude is an essential determinant of students motivation and interest in learning the French language.

Parental Attitude and Parental Intervention Strategies on Digital Media Usage Among Young Children

Technology-focused parenting has evolved to provide a constantly updated digital experience for the new digital populations while parents mitigate the risks of digital media exposure in this modern society. This study explores parental attitude on the impact of digital media and their respective parental intervention strategies. There were five parents recruited through purposive sampling technique and they participated in in-depth interview. Parents generally hold positive attitude towards digital media. They apply different parental strategies for children’s media activities and its contents. This study addressed relationships pertinent to current parental strategies, media and child’s factors. Considerable possibilities and patterns to nurture young children with digital media has been elucidated through uncovering parents’ perspectives and challenges.

Parental Attitudes and the Attitude to Energy Saving among Young People with ASD

The aim of the study was to determine the association between parental attitudes and saving energy in the perception of young people with autism spectrum (13–17 years old). The character of studies was pilot. The diagnostic survey method was used, along with The Scale of Parental Attitudes by M. Plopa and an authored survey questionnaire. Deliberate random sampling was applied. Statistical analysis showed that an attitude towards autonomy manifested by mothers, as well as an attitude of acceptance in mothers and fathers, turned out to be significant in adolescents with ASD showing a positive attitude towards energy saving, and these correlations were positive, strong and statistically significant. An overly protective attitude of mothers turned out to be significant in shaping a negative attitude towards energy saving among adolescents with ASD with a significant, positive moderate correlation. Regression analysis showed that the perception of the father’s parental attitude as accepting was a statistically significant predictor of a positive attitude towards energy saving, and that the perception of the mother’s parental attitude as demanding and overly protective was a statistically significant predictor of a negative attitude to energy saving. The achieved results acquire an additional aspect, i.e., a financial dimension in the household budget.

Influence of Parental Attitudes on Formation of Psychological Resilience and Adherence to Medical Regime in Adolescents after Liver or Renal Transplantation

Identifying the causes of poor disease control and medication non-adherence is indispensable so that patients can benefit from treatment. The aim of our study was to determine the relationship between parental attitudes, the development of psychological resilience, and systematic medication adherence in a group of adolescents after kidney and liver transplantation. The analysis included the results obtained from 96 families. A total of 52 patients after kidney transplantation and 44 patients after liver transplantation, aged 12–18 years and their parents were examined. The types of parental attitudes were assessed using the Parental Attitude Scale. The patient’s resilience was determined with the Resiliency Assessment Scale. The MMAS-8 was used to assess the regularity of medication-taking behavior. A total of 61% of the patients in the study group displayed high levels of psychological resilience. The analyses showed a positive correlation between resilience and the systematic taking of medication by the patients. Moreover, it was found that the analyzed link between psychological resilience on the degree of the regularity of medication intake was enhanced by a specific type of parental attitude. The obtained results confirm the importance of psychological resources in developing better disease control. The relationship between the type of parental attitudes and medication adherence indicates the need to take into account the family context during the child’s treatment.

The relationship between the type of parental relationship and the mental states of preschoolers

Анализ существующих литературных источников по проблеме исследования позволил предположить существование связи между типом родительского отношения и спецификой актуализации психических состояний дошкольников. Это определило направление настоящего исследования. Констатирующий эксперимент включал три этапа. Для выявления феноменологии отношений в родительско-детской диаде использовались известные опросники родительского отношения (ОРО, PARY) и родительское сочинение. На втором этапе определялись особенности психических состояний старших дошкольников при помощи проективных методик «Паровозик», «Кинотеатр», «Звезды и волны». Применение коэффициента корреляции Пирсона на третьем этапе позволило установить умеренные и слабые связи между типом родительских отношений и равновесными и неравновесными психическими состояниями старших дошкольников. «Принятие» и «кооперация» оказываются наиболее целесообразными и экологичными вариантами родительского отношения к детям, обеспечивающие актуализацию равновесных и положительных неравновесных состояний, оптимального уровня психической активности, формирование социально желательных и гармоничных черт личности. The analysis of the existing literature sources on the problem of research allowed us to suggest the existence of a connection between the type of parental attitude and the specifics of the actualization of mental states of preschoolers. This determined the direction of the present study. The ascertaining experiment included three stages. To identify the phenomenology of relations in the parent-child dyad, the well-known questionnaires of parental relations (PRQ, PARY) and the parent essay were used. At the second stage, the features of the mental states of older preschoolers were determined using the projective techniques "Steam Train", "Cinema", "Stars and Waves". The use of the Pearson correlation coefficient at the third stage allowed us to establish moderate and weak connections between the type of parental relationships and the equilibrium and non-equilibrium mental states of older preschoolers. "Acceptance" and "cooperation" turn out to be the most appropriate and environmentally friendly variants of parental attitude towards children, ensuring the actualization of equilibrium and positive non-equilibrium states, the optimal level of mental activity, the formation of socially desirable and harmonious personality traits.