ASPECTS OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN RELATION TO EMOTION UNDERSTANDING AND PARENTING STYLE IN SLOVAK AND SOUTH AFRICAN EARLY ADOLESCENTS

• Authors: Baumgartner František , Wirtz Zuzana , Ward Catherine L. , Poledňáková Ivana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The study is aimed at investigating understanding emotions in relation to aspects of antisocial behavior and substance use with respect to parenting styles. The sample was 397 early adolescents from two countries (Slovakia and South Africa). The authors applied exploratory analysis, calculating Spearman correlations and Mann-Whitney U-test in SPSS (since not all variables were normally distributed) and linear regression (in R) with quasi-poisson distribution, in order to examine associations between ability to understand emotions, antisocial behavior and other variables. A Generalized Linear Model UNIANOVA with quasi-poisson distribution was the most suitable for our data as they were not normally distributed, and did not fulfill the condition of the Poisson model. The analyses were conducted separately in samples of Slovak and South African early adolescents with regard to examining the relationships between key variables in both groups separately, and then to study the differences between them. The obtained results only partly support expected significant associations between higher level of emotion understanding and lower level of involvement in antisocial behavior. Regarding the method used to measure emotional intelligence, the authors conclude that the performance test of emotion understanding (STEU) is only partly a suitable tool for exploring this construct. First, the STEU – even though modified for this population – had some problems with internal consistency; and secondly, the degree to which these instruments serve as indicators of real life behavior is also questionable. Although their findings support only some relationships they expected to find, they believe that even these findings of associations of ability to understand emotions with some aspects of behavior and influence of parenting style in early adolescence could assist as baseline facts and offer new ideas and inspirational base for further research studies.

Keywords

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EMOTION; UNDERSTANDING; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; PARENTING STYLES; EARLY ADOLESCENCE; SLOVAKIA; SOUTH AFRICA

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: -

Contributors

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Baumgartner František

• Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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Wirtz Zuzana

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Ward Catherine L.

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Poledňáková Ivana