Self-confidence and its relationship with parenting styles among a sample of high school students in the Libyan Society: A field study
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Parenting styles, self-confidence, father’s treatment, mother’s treatmentAbstract
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-confidence and parenting styles among a sample of high school students within Libyan society. The sample comprised (111) participants, including (58) male and (53) female students. The descriptive approach was employed for the study. The Al-Sharifain (2008) Scale for Parenting Styles was utilized, alongside the Self-Confidence Scale developed by Sidney Shrauger (1980) and translated and standardized by Mohammed Adel Abdullah. Both instruments demonstrated adequate validity and reliability. To achieve the study’s objectives, several statistical techniques were employed, including the paired sample t-test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Mann–Whitney test, Pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, as well as percentages, frequencies, and various measures of central tendency and dispersion. The results revealed a positive correlation at the (0.01) significance level between both paternal and maternal parenting styles and self-confidence. Furthermore, statistically significant differences were observed at the (0.000) level between the arithmetic means of the overall parenting styles scale and the self-confidence scale and their hypothetical means, in favor of the arithmetic means. However, no statistically significant differences were found at the (0.05) level between respondents’ scores on both scales based on educational or family background variables.
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