Effects of Parent-Children Communication on Academic Performance of the Children: A Study of Southern Punjab, Pakistan

This research study pertaining to the effects of Parents-Children Communication on the academic performance of the children was carried out across the Southern Punjab. The researcher observed at various stances that Parent-Children Communication was taken as granted by the parents and its consequences were not bothered. This research investigated the relationship between Parental-Children Communication, Gender, and Academic performance of the children. The Emotional Security Theory (EST) developed by Cummings and Davies (2006) and Social Learning Theory posed by Albert Bandura (1974) were applied to the study. of 6th grade. All children living in Southern Punjab and their parents were considered as population of the study. The researcher used multistage sampling technique. The researcher took a balanced sample comprised of 1000 male and female children. SPSS version-25 was used for data analysis. The study revealed that friendly Parent-Children Communication was positively associated with progress in academic performance whereas unfriendly Parent-Children Communication was negatively associated with progress in the academic performance. Furthermore male children were found more sensitized to unfriendly Parent-Children Communication than the female children as academic performance of female children were found higher than their counterparts. Keywords: Education, Parent-Children Communication, Gender, Children, Southern Punjab

Effects of Friendly Parent-Children Communication on Children’s Interest in Education: A Study of Southern Punjab

Parents-Children Communication [PCC] remained an area of urgency to be addressed because the education of children revolves around the communication which was taken as granted by most of the parents. The research study was carried out across the Southern Punjab [SP]. The researcher selected the area due to low literacy rate and less socio-economic status. This research investigated the relationship between PCC and children’s Interest in Education [IIE]. The Emotional Security Theory [EST] and Social Learning Theory [SLT] were applied to the study. All 6th grade children from SP were considered as population of the study. The researcher used multistage sampling technique. The survey data was taken from a balanced sample of 1000 male and female children and analyzed through SPSS version-25. The study revealed that friendly PCC was positively associated with children’s IIE. The study would be beneficial for the parents to redress their communication with children to build children’s interest in gaining education.

Dyadic Coping, Parental Warmth, and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior in Four Countries

This study examined parental warmth as a mediator of relations between mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions of dyadic coping and adolescent externalizing outcomes. Data from 472 adolescents, mothers, and fathers were collected over a three-year period from families in China, Kenya, Sweden, and Thailand. For mothers in all four sites and fathers in three sites, better parental dyadic coping at youth age 13 years predicted higher levels of parental warmth at youth age 14 years. For mothers in all four sites, higher levels of maternal warmth were in turn related to less youth externalizing behavior at the age of 15 years, and higher levels of dyadic coping at youth age 13 years were related to less youth externalizing behavior at the age of 15 years indirectly through maternal warmth. Emotional Security Theory helps explain the process by which dyadic coping is related to adolescent externalizing behavior. The results have important implications for parent- and family-based interventions.

Transactional cascades of destructive interparental conflict, children's emotional insecurity, and psychological problems across childhood and adolescence

This study examined the transactional interplay among dimensions of destructive interparental conflict (i.e., hostility and dysphoria), children's emotional insecurity, and their psychological problems from middle childhood and adolescence. Participants were 232 families, with the first of five measurement occasions occurring when children were in first grade (M age = 7 years). Cross-lagged, autoregressive models were conducted with a multiple-method, multiple-informant measurement approach to identify developmental cascades of interparental and child cascades. Results indicated that emotional insecurity was a particularly powerful mediator of prospective associations between interparental conflict (i.e., dysphoria and hostility) and child adjustment during adolescence rather than childhood. In reflecting bidirectionality in relationships between interparental and child functioning, children's psychological problems predicted increases in interparental dysphoria during childhood and adolescence. Although emotional insecurity was not identified as a proximal predictor of interparental difficulties, an indirect cascade was identified whereby insecurity in early adolescence was associated with increases in teen psychological problems, which in turn predicted greater interparental dysphoria over time. Results are interpreted in the context of how they advance transactional formulation of emotional security theory and its resulting translational implications for clinical initiatives.

Identifying the temperamental roots of children's patterns of security in the interparental relationship

Guided by emotional security theory, this study examined the temperamental precursors of distinctive profiles of children's responses to interparental conflict. Participants included 243 children (M = 4.6 years) and their parents across two annual measurement occasions. Temperamental constructs of frustration proneness, approach, positive affect, activity level, and effortful control were assessed through multiple methods, informants, and contexts. Behavioral observations of children's responses to interparental conflict at each wave yielded four profiles: secure (i.e., efficiently address direct threat), mobilizing (i.e., vigilance to potential threat and social opportunities), dominant (i.e., directly defeat threat), and demobilizing (i.e., reduce salience as a target of hostility). Results supported hypotheses on the distinct constellations of temperament in predicting subsequent change in the four security profiles.