2009 Volume 23 Issue 2 Pages 65-78
In this study, we examine relationships between the junior high school students' cognition of parenting and their mothers' parenting. The parenting theory of Baumrind (1967, 1996) is used in this study. This parenting theory has two dimensions, responsiveness and demandingness.
First, we make these scales of parenting for the junior high school students and their mothers. These scales were named “two-dimensional parenting questionnaire” with parent-version and childversion (DPQ-P, DPQ-C). Moreover, the validity was examined.
In research 2, we examine the disagreement between mothers and children about parenting. And we examine gender differences about boys' and girls' cognition of parenting.
From results, a significant positive correlation was shown about responsiveness. Therefore, it was suggested that there are a lot of parts of agreement of mothers' and children's parenting regardless of gender differences. And, a significant positive correlation was seen for demandingness between mothers' and boys' parenting, but it wasn't seen by girls' parenting. It had been examined only from the aspect like the agreement and the disagreement. In the research, we suggested that there is the disagreement between mothers' parenting and children's cognitions of parenting. And it was suggested to be likely not to happen with the case for the disagreement between mothers' parenting and children's cognition of parenting from this research because of two dimensions of parenting of responsiveness and demandingness.
