مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A Research on the Relationship Between Parenting Functions and Various Behaviour Problems of Primary School Children Having Different Levels Of IQA

Abstract :

The objective of the research is to examine the relationship between parenting functions and various behaviour problems of children with mental disabilities, with an average IQ, gifted ones. Besides, that their parenting functions has been healthy/unhealthy and children’s behaviour problems have been examined and compared. This is a descriptive research based on the relational screening model. 300 primary school, from Zeytinburnu Province (the European side of Istanbul), contributed to the research. Health status of participants is measured with “Family Assessment Scale” by Bulut (1990), and behaviour problems with “Revised Check List Of Behaviour Problems” by Kaner and Çiçekçi (1999). While analyzing the data, pearson correlation coefficient analysis was used for understanding the relationship between parenting functions and the behaviour problems scale points. On the other hand, One Way Anova and Dunnett’s C Test was used for checking whether there were a significance differences in the groups or not. Results after the above mentioned statistical analysis, there has been a statistically significant relationship between healthy parenting functions and behaviour problems for the ones having eithe an average level of IQ, gifted and mental disabilities. It was also found to be significant predictors of behavioral problems of various family functions. Based on the results of the research, including all IQ levels, I can say that there has been a significance difference in terms of parenting functions and behaviour problems.