Single-parenting attitude and scholastic performance of pupils in Paulinian schools in Metro Manila

• Main Author: Rodriguez, Esperanza Rafael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1987
• Subjects: Children of single parents > Education; Academic achievement; Elementary Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/39
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study determines the relationship between the attitudes of single-parents and their children's scholastic performance and mental ability. The descriptive-correlational type of research was employed to establish the extent to which single-parents' parenting attitudes were related to their children's academic performance. The profile of the single-parents was established first by using the set of Parental Attitude Scales. Then, the scholastic performance of the school-children of single-parents was determined by the California Achievement Test, Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test, and grade-point Averaging. Finally, the scores of the single-parents obtained in the set of Parental Attitude Scales and those of their school-children's in the California Achievement Test, Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test, and Grade-point Averaging were correlated. The subjects of this study were 452 single-parents and their grade school children from the two participating Paulinian elementary schools, namely: St. Paul School of Makati (SPSM), and St. Paul College of Paranaque (SPCP). The total population of Grade IV, V and VI students in the school year 1986-1987 was 226 (181 girls and 45 boys). All were Filipinos with ages ranging from 10 to 12 years old. The single-parent population consisted of 217 single-mothers and 9 single-fathers. All of them were Filipinos, belonging to the middle and upper-middle socio-economic class, and at least high school graduates. The one-parent home influenced school-children's performance through the single-parents' attitudes toward family-life issues, children and child-rearing, but to certain varying degrees. Among the single-parent attitudinal factors, strong relationships tend to hold between the following: 1. Single-parents' attitude toward family-life issues and school-children's low achievement level 2. Single-parents' nurturant-protective attitude toward children and school-children's low achievement level 3. Single-parents' permissive attitude toward child-rearing and school-children's low achievement level 4. Single-parents' nurturant-protective attitude toward children and daughters' poor intellective ability 5. Single-parents' nurturant-protective attitude toward children and daughter's good performance on academic subjects 6. Single-mothers' nurturant-protective attitude toward children and school-children's poor intellective ability and, 7. Single-parents' nurturant-protective attitude toward children and school-children's poor intellective ability. Moreover, the influence of the single-mother tended to be stronger than that of the single-father relative to their children's school performance, especially that of their daughters.