ISSN: 2265-6294

Fathers Matter: Peculiarities of Parenting Adolescents in Complete and Incomplete Families in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

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A.S. Turakulova, T. R. Khabiev, G. Sharafutdinova

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The paper contains the findings of a study directed at exploring the psychological features of child-parent relationships in complete and incomplete families on an Uzbekistani sample. As the literature review shows, on the development of the relationship between adolescents and the parent an important role is taken by the presence of the father in the family (Sarkadi et al.,2008; Opondo et al., 2016; Kroll et al., 2016, Buckley & Schoppe‐Sullivan, 2010; Makadei, 2010). This is supported by works that show the unique importance of the father in the development of children and adolescents (Buckley&Schoppe‐Sullivan, 2010; Luijten et al., 2021; Nogueira Avelar E Silva et al., 2016; Keizer et al., 2019; Lewis and Lamb, 2003). The survey was conducted with 272 adolescents aged 13 to 17 years, broken down by males (N=128; 47.1%) and females (N=144; 52.9%), to examine child-parent relationships in complete and incomplete families. Among adolescents, 85.3% (N=232) were raised in complete families and 14.7% (N=40) in single-parent families. Methods included questionnaires such as the “Family Environment Scale” in the Russian-language adaptation by S.Y. Kupriyanov and “Parent-Child Interaction” by I.I. Markovskaya. The results showed that in full families there was more control and insistence in the parental attitudes expressed by mothers towards their daughters. In incomplete families, there was greater emotional acceptance between the daughter and the mother. Meanwhile, incomplete families are less diverse both in family system indicators and in child-parent relationship patterns.

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