Dynamics of Parental Behaviour
Contents: I. Introduction: 1. Some erroneous beliefs of parents about their children/L.B. Tripati. 2. Theoretical perspectives on parenting : an overview/Neeti Sachdeva and Girishwar Misra. 3. Rohner\'s theory of parental acceptance--rejection/Rekha Baxy and Mahesh Bhargava. 4. An overview of personality researches on parentally rejected children/Mahesh Bhargava and Indu Bansal. 5. Measures related to parental behaviour in Indian context/Vibha Sharma, Vivek Bhargava and Babita Gupta. II. Perceived parental behaviour: 6. Perceived parental behaviour and acculturation/Rakesh V. Srivastava. 7. Perceived parental behaviour and repression sensitization tendency/Neetu Purohit and Manju Mehta. 8. Perceived parenting pattern and emotional competencies among adolescents/Gul Mathur and Praachi Sharma. 9. Perceived child-rearing attitudes and social class differences/Shailendra Kumar Oja and Purushottam Kumar. 10. Perception of parenting styles and emotional maturity/Anand Pyari, Raj Kumar Kalra and Poonam Bhasin. 11. Perceived parental disciplinary practices and attitudes towards parental discipline/V.P. Tripathi, Yogesh Kapoor and Sudhakar Dwivedi. 12. Parental perception of personal authority and adolescents autonomy/Loveleen Batra and Satinderjit Kaur Thind. III. Socio-personal dynamics of parenting: 13. Parenting -- a step towards socialization/R.L. Bharadwaj. 14. Role of family climate in quality of mothering behaviour/Saroj Aurora and Anju Singh. 15. Maternal involvement in working and non-working families/Shalini N. Singh and Shakuntla Punia. 16. Socio-personal variables as related to emotional intelligence in authoritative parenting style/Uma M. and Uma Devi L. 17. Socio-personal variables as selected to emotional intelligence in permissive parenting style/Uma M. and Uma Devi L. IV. Psychological dynamics of parenting: 18. Effective parenthood for the optimum development of the children/S.P. Rahagir. 19. Parent\'s initiative for creative development and growth central education of children/Rajshree Bhargava and Rakhi Bhargava. 20. Parental behaviour and persisting Oedipus and electra complex/Sarita Saini and Tejpreet Kaur Kang. 21. Prerogative of parents about their children educational choices/Archana Dubey and M. Buddisagar Rathod. 22. Parental acceptance--rejection and vocational and educational preferences/Nasreen Rahman Seikh and Usha Krishan. 23. Personal values as correlates of parental acceptance--rejection/Alpna Kakkar. 24. Personality characteristics of parently accepted and rejected children/Mahesh Bhargava and Ravi Sidhu. 25. Parental acceptance rejection and child\'s personality/Rekhi Baxy. 26. Personality similarities of mothers and their children under the conditions of acceptance rejection/Ravi Sidhu. 27. Attitude is of adolescents towards planned parenthood/Mukta Garg and Tatheer Fatma. V. Clinical intervention in parenting: 28. Problems related with single parenthood/Ravi Sidhu. 29. Parental attitude and mental retardation/Lutfan Rasul Saikia. 30. Dysfunctional parenting and childhood problem/Uday K. Sinha and Vibha Sharma. 31. Parent child interaction as determinant of behavioural deviance/Hassen Taj. 32. Parenting and children\'s aggression I/Sangeeta Trama and Sunil Saini. 33. Parenting and children\'s aggression II/Sangeeta Trama and Sunil Saini. VI. Parental education: 34. Providing psychological environment and inculcating Sanskars among children -- a sole responsibility of parents/Mahesh Bhargava. 35. Skillful parenting rearing style -- a strategy for sound child development/Praveen Kumar Jha and Vivek Bhargava. 36. Parental training for child rearing practices/Nov Ratan Sharma, Sushma Sharma, A.S. Sethi and Amrita Yadav. 37. Parental education in breast feeding and weaning practices/Praveen Devgan. 38. Education moral value to parents/Sandhya Verma and J.C. Ajwani. 39. Effect of intervention on maternal stimulation/Anju Manocha and Darshan Narang. 40. Impact of intervention programme on mother\'s knowledge regarding infant care and rearing/Sonika Singh and P. Nanda. Author. Index.
"For harmonious and all round development of the children, balanced and healthy parenting is required when both fathers and mothers not only shoulder their separate responsibilities and duties for the rearing and upbringing of the children but they should also think and act unitidly for the integrated development of the children and the quality of their interpersonal relationship is certainly a great landmark of child\'s development. The present book \'Dynamics of Parental Behaviour\' comprises of valuable contributions from sixty distinguished and eminent persons from the disciplines of psychology, education, home science, management and rural development, anthropology and sociology belonging to about 16 states of nation. It contains 49 very useful theoretical, review, informative and empirical articles and they are conveniently classified into six parts. Thus it contains a wide range of important ideas and suggestions which are readable and applied in daily life. The contributors have drawn upon their experiences as researchers, classroom teachers as well as parents.
It is hoped that this book will be quite useful for academicians, researchers, parents, teachers, educationists, medical practitioners and home scientists to study the parent child inter-actions and other problems faced by parents and children. It is useful for any library at any level." (jacket)
