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School Readiness: Beliefs about Preparing Children for Transition from Pre-primary to Primary Education in China
Cui, Shujing ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Straková, Jana (referee) ; Tesar, Marek (referee)
A smooth transition to primary school is positively related to children's later school experience. Continuity among family, Early Childhood Education and Care, and primary school is conducive to successful transition to school. Certain parental school- readiness beliefs and parenting styles, among other factors, contribute to the smoothness of this transition. Therefore, this study compared the school readiness beliefs among Chinese parents, kindergarten teachers and first grade teachers, based on samples drawn from Chongqing, China. 1204 Chinese parents, 245 kindergarten teachers and 133 primary school teachers participated in the current study. Using multi- group confirmatory factor analysis for checking the measurement invariance, this study revealed that kindergarten teachers valued social-emotional competence more than parents. And kindergarten teachers rated items about social-emotional competence significantly higher than primary school teachers did. Besides, this study adopted latent profile analysis to examine the patterns of Chinese parents' school-readiness beliefs. Three profiles were identified: (1) very strong overall emphasis and slightly less academic-oriented; (2) moderate overall emphasis and less academic-oriented; (3) no emphasis and more academic-oriented. Higher socioeconomic...
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Parenting goals of parents with pre-school children
PRA, Lucie
The main research goal of this thesis is to find out how parents of preschool children think about education. The first two chapters describe family as a background for upbringing and education, and parenthood as the key issue for understanding upbringing and education in the family. The third chapter presents the findings of a qualitative study how parents think about education (phenomenological analysis of interviews with five parents). The fourth chapter puts the findings from the qualitative study in connection with relevant theories described in professional literature.
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Relation between Parenting Style and the Pupils' School Discipline
VETÝŠKA, Jakub
This bachelor's thesis deals with the correlation between parenting style and school discipline in pupils aged 11 to 15. The theoretical part introduces the basic models of parenting styles and basic theoretical concepts connected to the pupils' school discipline, describes the changes in upbringing and pupils' school discipline in the course of time. The primary aim of the empirical part is to find out whether there are statistically significant differences in pupils' school discipline in relation to their parenting style. Another aim is to find out whether there is a statistically significant difference in discipline between the girls and the boys. In the research, which has a quantitative form, three questionnaires were used. These were: a questionnaire on parenting style, a questionnaire assessing the pupils' school discipline and a BFI-10 personality questionnaire. The questionnaire on parenting style was filled in by both the parents and the pupils in order to increase the validity of the research. The questionnaire assessing the pupils' school discipline was filled in by class teachers. The research sample consists of 117 pupils (from four elementary schools), 206 parents (115 mothers and 91 fathers) and 13 class teachers. The results of the research demonstrated that there is a statistically significant difference between the family's emotional relationships and the pupil's school discipline, and this was shown in the scale of discipline. No statistically significant difference between parenting control and pupil's school discipline was found in any category. In the unpreparedness for lessons and disruption of lessons categories a statistically significant difference was found in discipline between girls and boys - the girls are more disciplined than the boys in those categories. The analysis also revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between extraversion and the scale of discipline, a statistically significant negative correlation between agreeableness and telling lies, a statistically significant negative correlation between conscientiousness and cheating and last but not least a statistically significant negative correlation between openness to experience and the scale of discipline.
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The use of modern communication technologies by children - comparison of educational approaches.
KAHLERTOVÁ, Jindřiška
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of parenting style on regulation of children's media use at home. The method used is meta-analysis in which come together 18 international studies on family, parenting style, children and media use. In the interpretation, the influence of parenting styles on the organization of children and the media was assessed as determining. From the quantitative and qualitative part, it comes out equally as the most suitable and the only right democratic parenting style. There is no significant concurrence of a positive emotional relationship and strong educational management in other parenting styles. It can be seen in the application of parenting styles in the Czech Republic that a relatively small proportion of adolescents are exposed to the positive influence of a democratic parenting style. In addition, the already well-known relationship between the number and placement of media in the home and problem of media usage were made visible in the analysis. There is also a very strong influence of long-term control on the rate and usage of media. Family relationships have a decisive influence on the understanding of control by the child. In families with unbalanced relationships and social situations, the primary prevention of problem of media usage may be neglected. Some shortcomings in the communication of children and parents regarding feelings of digital loneliness and their maturity to autonomous behaviour have proved interesting. These can lead to basic misunderstandings.
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Family environment and adolescent alcohol consumption
Rendlová, Barbora ; Soukup, Petr (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This diploma thesis Family environment and adolescent alcohol consumpiton deals with a relationship between four dimensions of family environment and alcohol consumption of sixteen years old adolescents. These four dimensions are leisure time, family structure, parenting style and socioeconomic status. In the theoretical part family influence on child's development is described and then socialization process through which family influence child's development is delimited. Further, the relationship between family environment and alcohol consumption is discussed and then four dimensions of family environment are characterized in context of alcohol consumption. Relationship between family environment and alcohol consumption was studied using mixed research design. In the main quantitative part of the thesis general relationships between chosen dimensions of family environment and alcohol consumption indicators were examined using data from European School Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) from the year 2007. Then a typology of adolescent alcohol consumers was made. Results of this part continued in the qualitative part. There ten semistrctured interviews were made to examine deeper connections and direction of relationships discovered in the quantitative data analysis. This part was primarily...
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The perception of teacher's authority by 6th and 9th grade pupils
Matějková, Karolína ; Šaroch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Syřiště, Ivo (referee)
This diploma thesis is concerned with the perception of the teacher's authority by pupils of the 6th and 9th grades of a grammar school. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the perception of the teacher's authority by students of the above mentioned age groups from different perspectives. These aspects include ontogenetic stages of their development, the gender and the milieu. They are one of the topics that will be paid attention to in the theoretical part of the thesis. Another theme of the work includes the concept of authority and the authority of the teacher. The research is based od a quantitative survey, carried out through a questionnaire created for research purposes. The task of the questionnaire is to find out whether the perception of the teacher's authority changes depending on the age of the pupils, which means a specific stage of ontogenetic development, and how the above mentioned points affect the perception of teacher's authority by pupils of 6th and 9th grades. In order to confirm or specify the obtained questionnaire data or add information to them, a semi-structured interview was conducted with selected teachers. The interview was attended by five respondents, two men and three women of various age, with different length of work experience at various schools. The aim of...
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Parenting styles and priorities from the perspective of Vietnamese parents living in the Czech Republic.
LISAC, Jiří
This Bachelor´s thesis is focused on the problems of family upbringing in the context of the opinions and experience of Vietnamese parents. It collects perspectives on various conceptions of parenting, preferences of parenting styles and priorities in connection with the value and cultural world of the Vietnamese minority in the Czech Republic. In the practical part of the thesis, the opinions of parents from the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic on the upbringing of their own children are evaluated based on the qualitative methodology. In the respective categories there are identified the relevant data resulting from the description of a choice of a parenting style and designation of priorities regarded by such informants as fundamental in upbringing of their children.
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Validation of learning motivation measure Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) in the Czech environment
Kováčová, Klára ; Stuchlíková, Iva (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
This master's these is considering the relationship between achievement goals and parenting styles. In the theoretic part of the thesis there are described current findings in the area of development individual achievement goals until adolescence from the viewpoint of social cognitive theory and the role of parents in this process. Research is aimed at establishing working model of the PALS questionnaire in Czech Republic and relationship of achievement goals and family parenting styles in students of 7th , 8th and 9th grade of mainly Prague elementary schools. Results show the need to modify PALS questionnaire in the manner that would better reflect the difference between performance- approach and performance-avoidance goals. The statistically significant relationship between achievement goals and parenting styles was not found. KEYWORDS achievement motivation, goal theory, competence, parenting style, PALS questionnaire
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The level of parental control in relation to leisure activity choices and alcohol consumption among sixth grade students taking part in the Unplugged project
Vlachová, Alena ; Čablová, Lenka (advisor) ; Pavlas Martanová, Veronika (referee)
The bachelor thesis titled The level of parental control in relation to leisure activity choices and alcohol consumption among sixth grade students taking part in the Unplugged project studies the influence of individual parenting methods on leisure activity choices of children with respect to their alcohol consumption. The thesis aims to determine applicable findings for parenting methods and leisure activity choices, so that the risk of alcohol intake among children can be reduced. In the theoretical part of the thesis, Baumrind's parenting topology is introduced. Next, current knowledge of alcohol consumption and leisure activity choices among adolescents is summed up. At the end of the theoretical part of the thesis, findings of past works on the relationship of alcohol consumption and leisure activities are presented. The practical part of the thesis applies statistical methods for analysis of variance to the pupil data gathered within the Unplugged project so as to verify the hypotheses given. The total of five hypotheses are verified regarding the influence of parenting methods on leisure activity choices of children or regarding the influence of leisure activity choices of children on their alcohol consumption. The final part of the thesis is devoted to describing the consequences of the...
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