The Psychological Outcomes Of Parental Responses In Relations To Their Children’s Expressions Of Negative Effect
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The present research has the main aim to study the psychological outcome of parental responses to their children’s expressions of negative effect in relation to loneliness and the attitudes of their children towards their parents. The correlation design was used to study the relationship of positive and negative parental responses to their children’s negative affect with the loneliness and attitude of their children towards parents. The sample of the study comprised of 100 families of Shimla city having one male and female child (13-19 yrs. of age) besides father’s education of at least graduate level. In order to observe the parental responses to their children’s negative affect, Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale (CCNES) Mohsin Parent-Child Inventory (MPCI) and Lonliness scale were used to take the observations of the participants. The result revealed the positive Parental responses to the children’s expressions of negative affect are significantly and positively associated with the attitude of their children but negatively to their loneliness while negative parental responses are significantly and negatively associated with the attitude of their children towards parents and positively to their loneliness.
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