Corrective restraint: verbal and nonverbal forms of discipline typically used by Filipinos

• Main Authors: Bermejo, Josephine E., Ocampo, Teenarose D., Tan, Dexter Lee
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1993
• Subjects: Discipline of children; Children > Management; Parent and child; Restraint (Physiology); Filipinos > Social life and customs; Child discipline
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6680
• Institution: De La Salle University

This is a descriptive-explanatory study which discusses the different verbal and nonverbal forms of corrective restraint used by Filipino parents and also its relationship to variables such as locality, length of marriage, age and sex of the child. Furthermore, differences in the use by fathers and mothers and determinants of the verbal and nonverbal forms of corrective restraint will also be illustrated. Purposive sampling was employed to come up with one hundred and twenty respondents which were given survey questionnaires containing list of verbal and nonverbal forms of corrective restraint. Twelve parents were randomly selected from these respondents and were interviewed to further support the results of the survey. Data collected were analyzed using the following statistical treatment: computing for the mean scores showed the different verbal and nonverbal commonly used by Filipino parents t-test for correlated data was used and yielded a significant difference between the fathers' and the mothers' use of verbal and nonverbal forms of corrective restraint with a probability of .000 and .016 respectively significant relationships between the following: parents verbal and nonverbal use of corrective restraint and the sex of child, fathers verbal use of corrective restraints and the age of child, and a negative relationship for mothers' nonverbal use of corrective restraints and locality to which they belong, as well as length of marriage, were determined through the use of pearson's r at .05 and .01 level of significance lastly stepwise regression came up with the significant determinants of fathers' verbal which are length of marriage, sex and age of the child, and for mothers' verbal, locality and sex of the child the fathers' and the mothers' use of nonverbal corrective restraint are determined by the same variable, which is the sex of the child. The authors arrived at the following conclusions: (a) telling the child the kind of effect the behavior might cause, paninitsit, panlalaki ng mata, titig, threatening the child about supernatural beings such as ghosts, dwarfs, witches, etc., change in the tone of voice and facial expression are the verbal and nonverbal forms of corrective restraint which are predominant among Filipino parents, (b) mothers are more verbal and nonverbal than their husbands, (c) fathers and mothers are more verbal and nonverbal towards their sons, (d) fathers are also more verbal to the older siblings, (e) urban mothers are more verbal and (f) mothers are also more verbal when married for a longer period of time.