Date of Award:
5-1979
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Ramona Marotz-Baden
Committee
Ramona Marotz-Baden
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in children's perceptions of mothers' and fathers' to aggressing girls and boys. A picture test of children aggressing was devised and administered to 52 fourth grade children from upper middle socioeconomic backgrounds attending school in an Idaho community.
Sex of aggressor, type of aggression (verbal or physical), and sex of parent were investigated as factors possibly related to children's perceptions. None of these variables were found to be significant in this sample. However, boys' perceptions of how parents respond to children aggressing were significantly different from girls' perceptions. Girls perceived parents verbally helping or redirecting children and boys perceived parents physically punishing children more often than any other type of response.
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Recommended Citation
Rohrbach, K. B., "Children's Perceptions of Parental Responses to Boys' and Girls' Aggressive Behavior" (1979). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2623.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2623
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