Citation

Marshall E, Alexander WRJ, Cull V, Buckner E, Jackson K, Powell K. J. Community Health Nurs. 1994; 11(4): 239-248.

Affiliation

University of Alabama School of Nursing, Birmingham 35294-1210.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7830096

Abstract

A descriptive study to assess parenting and childrearing attitudes was conducted among 502 high school students in a greater metropolitan area in the Southeast. The Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (Bavolek, 1984) was used to identify students' scores on four constructs associated with abusive parenting: inappropriate parental expectations, lack of empathy toward the child, value of physical punishment, and parent-child role reversal. Several group differences were found by sex, race, grade, and birth order. Ten percent of students scored consistently low and could be targeted for education programs to increase parenting knowledge and skill.

Language: en