DIFFERENCES IN PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE – REJECTION AND PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION AMONG STATUS OFFENDERS AND HOME CHILDREN

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  • Sumera Solangi Lecturer of Psychology, Benazir Bhutto University, Lyari Karachi

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the Parental Acceptance – Rejection and personality Organization among Status Offenders and Home Children. This is one of the burning issues of the present time in our society. It has been found that parents, more or less, are involved in the delinquent behavior of their children because of their neglected and unskilled behavior (Bartol. C, Bartol, A.M, 1986). Such children are more vulnerable towards status offenders or runaways, who have disturbed family environment. The present study was comprised of 64 participants (N═ 64), out of which status offender participants were (N═ 32, males N ═ 30, females N ═ 02), and home children participants were (N═ 32, males N ═ 30, females N ═ 02). The mean age of participants of both groups of children was 13 and 12.78 years respectively. Two sampling techniques were used; purposive sampling technique for status offenders and simple random technique was used to select the sample of home children participants. PAQ and PARQ (Ronald Rohner, 1975) were administered on participants. The findings of the study have been analyzed statistically, revealed that status offenders have perceived more parental neglect then home children. Analysis further revealed negative correlation among the personality organization of status offenders and home children, especially all the scales of aggression and emotional stability on these subscales offenders scored high.

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Published

2012-12-01

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