A study on the perception of school-age children on the rearing practices utilized by their grandparents

Date of Completion

1999

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

Child Rearing, Grandparents, Children

Abstract

This study utilized the descriptive non-experimental purposive sampling type of research. This was conducted at Calulut, San Fernando, Pampanga. The respondents were 50 school aged children who were reared by their grandparents with both parents working and are living with them. The questionnaire deals with the different rearing practices utilized to school-age children by their grandparents in terms of physical psychological, emotional, and spiritual care. The instrument used was from a questionnaire developed by the researchers with the guidance of Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory and Bohr’s Moral and Spiritual Development. The following findings were drawn: 1.) The profile of the selected subjects in terms of age showed that majority of the school-aged children belonged to 6 and 12 years old with the percentage of 18%, and the least belonged to 7 years old at 8%. In terms of gender, most of the school age children are female with the percentage of 66% while male are only 34%. While in terms of ordinal position, the first child received the highest percentage at 38%, followed by the second child at 26%, the fourth child at 18%, the third child at 16%, and lastly the fifth at 2%. 2.) With regards to the rearing practices utilized by grandparents to their school-aged grandchildren with both parents working in terms of physical, psychological, seeing to it that the children ate before they go to school received the highest score. In psychological care, guiding them to proper direction by saying what’s right or wrong scored the most. While giving advice and read to listen to the children’s problem ranks first in terms of emotional care, and in spiritual needs by teaching them the right conduct was first in the rank, and 3.) F-Test showed that there’s a significant difference in rearing practices utilized by the grandparents to school-aged children with both parents working when grouped according to age, gender, and ordinal position. T-Test showed that there was no significant difference on the perception of school-aged children when grouped according to age in terms of physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual rearing practices utilized by their grandparents.

Comments

Call Number: TH NM 99 11

Location: Research Commons

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