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The relationship between parenting and problematic behaviours exhibited by children with autistic disorder in Hong Kong
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Date Issued
2012
Publisher
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Description
Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.) -- Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-79).
xi, 119 p.
Type
Thesis
Programme
Master of Social Sciences in Counselling Psychology
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parenting and
problematic behaviours exhibited by children with autistic disorder. The study examined the
influence of global parenting typologies, authoritative and authoritarian, on autistic children’s self-injurious, stereotyped, and aggressive behaviours. A total of 58 participants (11 fathers and 47 mothers) who have children (50 boys and 8 girls) with autistic disorder were included in this study. Parents were invited to fill a self-report questionnaire regarding their demographic information, their parenting behaviours, their children’s level of autistic
disorder, and also their children’s problematic behaviours. The Childhood Autism Rating
Scale (CARS), Parenting Behaviour Questionnaire (PBQ), and Problematic Behaviour
Inventory (PBI) were used to measure the above captioned variables respectively. Results
revealed that authoritarian parenting and parental verbal hostility was significantly predictive of autistic children’s aggressive behaviours; while a high level of authoritative parenting was associated with a significantly lower level of children’s self-injurious and aggressive behaviours. Significant differences of children’s problematic behaviours were also observed between high and low level practice of some specific authoritative and authoritarian parenting strategies. The findings of this study partially supported the positive and negative outcomes of previous parenting research; while some of the findings were not consistent, especially for those related to the positive outcomes in a high level of authoritarian parenting practice. These findings suggested the influence of cultural factors on parenting styles and a further investigation on the factors contributing to the cultural differences on parenting is warranted.
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