Citation

Khalifa HAM. Int. J. Appl. Psychol. 2017; 7(3): 60-69.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Scientific and Academic Publishing)

DOI

10.5923/j.ijap.20170703.02

PMID

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of socio-demographic predictors (age, gender, family monthly income, number of dependents under 18 years, parental marital status, and parental education level) on children's social competence through three dimensions: (1) I don't pay attention to my children, (2) I have to repeatedly reteach skills to my child, and (3) The child withdrew socially because of abuse. The research is based on a survey taken on a sample of 1751 children of 10-16 years of age across Assiut governorate during May 2016. The findings show that these three dimensions do have a significant influence on a child's social competence, and that the predictors of age, gender, family monthly income, parental marital status, and parental education level affect the incidence of social competence (social adaptability) via each of these three dimensions. The number of dependents under 18 years of age in a family has no effect on a child's social competence. Based on these three dimensions the research also shows that children in Egyptian families display greater social competence with increasing age, with higher family monthly income, with higher parental educational levels, if they are female, and if their parents are married.

Language: en