Bunkyo University, Faculty of Human Sciende, Part-time lecturer
Bunkyo University, Faculty of Human Science
Teikyo University of Science
Saitama University, Faculty of Education
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An instrument with which parents of schoolchildren can assess their children’s cooperative traits and an instrument with which to assess parents’ own parenting styles were devised. These instruments were used to survey parents of schoolchildren in first to sixth grade(N=2034). Data were subjected to factor analyses, and the Multifaceted Cooperativeness Scale for Children Assessed by their Parents(MCSCAP)and Parenting Style Scale(PSS)were developed based on those results. The MCSCAP had three subscales: Cooperation, which assesses a child’s readiness to cooperate with others; Collaborative Problem-solving, which assesses the tendency to respect others’ opinions and to conceive the best solution for both the other person and oneself; and Harmonious Conformity, which assesses the tendency to fall in harmony with others. The PSS had two subscales: Responsive/Sharing and Controlling/Demanding. Scores on the subscales of the MCSCAP were analyzed in 2 x 6(gender x grade)ANOVA. The main effects of gender and grade were significant for all three subscales. Girls’ scores were higher than boys’ scores, and the higher the grade, the higher the scores. These effects were most prominent in Collaborative Problem-solving.
Based on the scores for Responsive/Sharing and Controlling/Demanding, parents were classified as having one of four parenting patterns: Authoritarian(both high), Permissive(high Responsive/Sharing, low Controlling/Demanding), Authoritarian(low Responsive/Sharing, high Controlling/Demanding), and Unconcerned(both low). This classification was used to perform one-way ANOVA of scores for Cooperation, Collaborative Problem-solving, and Harmonious Conformity. Results indicated that Authoritarian and Permissive parents had a higher score for Cooperation than Authoritarian parents, which had a higher score than Unconcerned parents. Authoritarian and Permissive parents had a higher score for Collaborative Problem-solving than Authoritarian and Unconcerned parents. Parents with different parenting patterns did not differ significantly in terms of their score for Harmonious Conformity.