Date of Graduation
Fall 2016
Degree
Master of Science in Early Childhood and Family Development
Department
Early Childhood and Family Development
Committee Chair
Joan E. Test
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations among parenting styles, social skills and conflict resolution strategies of children with their peers. Twenty children aged 5 to 10 years and twenty parents participated in the study. The Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire and an adapted questionnaire from The Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY) were used to measure parental styles and social skills of children respectively. Children were interviewed to assess their conflict resolution strategies by using six hypothetical stories taken from two different studies. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used for data analyses. The findings suggested associations among parenting styles, social skills and conflict resolution strategies. Results showed that inappropriate assertiveness was positively related with less desirable and negatively related to more desirable conflict resolution strategies. Positive aspects of parenting were positively related to children's use of positive strategies and negatively related to less desirable strategies in response to conflict resolution. Less desirable aspects of parenting were negatively related with children's positive way of resolving conflict. Results also showed that parenting aspects and children's social skills together predicted children's conflict resolution strategies in addition to their individual impacts.
Keywords
parenting style, social skills, peer conflict, conflict resolution, conflict resolution strategies
Subject Categories
Child Psychology
Copyright
© Afroza Parvin
Recommended Citation
Parvin, Afroza, "Conflict Resolution in Children and the Association Between Parenting Style and the Children’s Own Social Skills" (2016). MSU Graduate Theses. 3038.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3038
