期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2001
卷号：10
期号：4-5 (54-55)
页码：903-925
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The aim of this work is to examine the influence of family strcture, i.e. self-supporting motherhood on the child's and mother's assessment of the overall family atmosphere and three dimensions of the mother's parental behaviour (child acceptance, psychological control, behavioural control) and to check the interactive influence of the child's gender and family structure on the mother's and child's perception of the examined family processes. An additional goal was to establish the degree of connection between the mother's and child's assessments and determine whether the structure of the family is a moderator of this connection. The sample consisted of 795 children of an early adolescent age (697 from families with both parents, 98 from self-supporting mothers' families) and 553 mothers (487 from families with both parents, 66 self-supporting). The results indicated that the family structure has no influence on the child's perception of the mother's parental behaviour and the family atmosphere. On the other hand, in the way in which the self- -supporting mothers and mothers from families with both parents perceive the examined family processes, certain differences have been determined. The greatest difference has been observed in the mother's selfperception of control of the child's behaviour, wherein the self-supporting mothers reported less control than mothers from families with both parents. Similarly, self-supporting mothers also assessed their psychological control over the child to be somewhat lower than that of mothers from traditional families. A significant interactive influence of the child's gender and family structure on the mother's perception of the family atmosphere has also been established as well as a limitedly significant influence of this interaction on the mother's perception of child acceptance. Correlations between the mother's and child's assessments are generally moderate in size, while the family structure has been proven a significant moderator of this connection only in the assessments of the overall family atmosphere.
