Maternal mental health and their perception of emotional behavioral problems in adolescents
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2016
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate mothers' mental health and explore mothers' perception of adolescent's emotional and behavioral problems and the prevention strategies they use to deal with the problems. Cross-sectional research design was used, the sample of the study was n=238 (112 boys and 126 girls) and was administered on the mothers whose children studied from classes 6 to 10 which was selected through stratified random sampling technique. The two scales that were used to measure were Urdu translation version of Mental Health Inventory (Bashir & Naz, 2013) and an indigenous scale that is Perceived Emotional and Behavioral Problems (PEBP). The analysis of PEBP revealed 4 factors which were Aggression, Academic problems, Detachment and Withdrawal. PEBP was found to be reliable with cronbach alpha 0.90, test-retest r=0.71, split half reliability 0.79 and 0.87 and valid with acceptable psychometric properties. The results also revealed a negative relationship between maternal mental health and perceived emotional and behavioral problems. In the course of working on the project the following suggestions came across which were the limitation of this research that is father's perspective should also be researched, caregivers perspectives (which in our society is mostly elder siblings), extensive research on child-parent-teacher perspective should be carried out to get a complete picture of emotional and behavioral problems in our society.
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Supervised by:Miss. Umaiza Bashir
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Caregivers perspectives, Cross-sectional, MS THESIS