The Relationship of Child Attitudes to Their Parents with Tendency to Communicate with Opposite Sex and Adjustment Level in Girl Adolescents

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Guilan

2 Ph.D. Student of Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

3 M. A of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University

4 PhD Student of Psychology, University of Guilan

5 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

10.22098/jsp.2020.900

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation adolescent’s attitudes to their parents with tendency to communicate with opposite sex and adjustment levels in adolescence period. The statistical population of this study were all of high school girl students of Rasht city, from among them  110 people were selected via  random cluster sampling method and  answered to adjustment inventory,  attitude toward premarital sex and  child’ attitude to parent. The  regression based-correlation findings was indicated positive and significant relation among child attitudes’ to mother but not father on tendency to communicate with opposite sex(P<0.01). As well as, there was positive and significant relation between child attitudes’ to father with   all three types of emotional, educational, and social of adjustment (P<0.05). Also, there was positive and significant relation between child attitudes’ to mother with  all three types of emotional, educational, and social adjustment (P<0.01). There was positive and significant relation between tendency to communicate with opposite sex on emotional adjustment (P<0.01), educational adjustment (P<0.01) but not social adjustment. Also, the results of multiple regression was showed that child attitudes’ to mother anticipates tendency to communicate with opposite sex. This study is indicative the impotence of feeling and emotions in teenage girl with their parents, specially mothers. So that, the interaction difficult mother - daughter is good forecast for their communications out of cultural framework and adjustment level.

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Journal of School Psychology
Volume 9, Issue 1
April 2020
Pages 7-29

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