Parenting style as a factor in the resiliency of University of the Philippines Rural High School Senior High School Students A.Y. 2018-2019

Date

2019

Adviser

Judith M. Bernardo

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the correlation of perceived parenting styles and resiliency in the Senior High School students of UPRHS using a mixed methods approach. A questionnaire which consists of the socio-demographic profile, the Parental Styles Scale (PSS), and Resilience Assessment (RA) was constructed to survey 224 students. The findings show that the most frequently perceived parenting style is authoritative, followed by indulgent, authoritarian, and neglectful. The mean score interval of the students' resilience was between 71 to 74 points, frilling into the MR level. Using cross tabulation and Cramer's V, it was found that parenting style had a very weak correlation to one's resilience which means that parenting style is not the primary predictor of one's resilience. In order to find the other factors that affected resilience, six students participated for each of the three focused group discussions on the indulgent, authoritative, and authoritarian parenting styles; while one student who perceived neglectful parenting was interviewed. The participants were selected according to their resiliency scores and the same parenting style. By analyzing thematically the FGDs and interviews, the study found that resilience is fostered through the fulfillment of basic psychological needs from one's developmental environment, the adversities one has faced, coupled with the individual's self-belief and coping. The HR students are those whose basic psychological needs - autonomy, competence, relatedness - have been fulfilled by their parents, stable support systems, and engagement in activities of interest. On the other hand, the basic psychological needs of the LR students were stilled through either overprotective or uninvolved parenting, betrayal of support systems, and a lack of an outlet to explore their competencies. Lastly, LR participants had lesser trust on themselves and saw failure or setback as a fault of their personality while those who viewed adversity in a positive light through humor and optimism recognized their degree of control over the adversity. In conclusion, one's parenting style nor socio-demographics do not predict an individual's resilience; rather, resilience is dependent on the interplay between external factors such as parent-child interactions, the presence of support systems, and exposure to adversity, and internal factors like one's coping mechanisms, self-belief and competencies. How a child is reared is still vital in developing resilience; however, the whole developmental environment, as well as the child himself plays a role in fostering his resilience.

Language

English

LC Subject

Capstone

Location

University of the Philippines Rural High School

Document Type

Capstone

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