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Stowers, Mary M. – 1992
This practicum paper describes an intervention to help parents increase their sense of empowerment. Expected outcomes of the intervention were that parents would: (1) increase their knowledge of concepts related to empowerment, such as control and nurturance; (2) experience a shift from an external to an internal locus of control; (3) observe an…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Locus of Control, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education
Wintre, Maxine Gallander; Yaffe, Marvin – 1991
This paper describes the development and validation of the Perception of Parents Scale (POPS), which was designed to measure the transformation in parent-child relations from the initial positions of authority and obedience to the mature position of mutual reciprocity. A 51-item, 4-point Likert scale was designed. Items were divided into three…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Higher Education, Locus of Control
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Pederson, Willy – Adolescence, 1994
A shortened version of the Parental Bonding Instrument, used in a sample of Norwegian adolescents, aged 15-19, indicated that adolescents' perceptions of mothers' and fathers' care and control/overprotection were related to measures of both depression/anxiety and delinquency. Scores may indicate risks in a broad range of psychosocial problems.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Childhood Attitudes