Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia

Parents are the person who the child first comes into contact with when born. They play an important role in children’s development in which the growing environment formed by parents, the attitude and behaviors of parents will influence children. Parents will be the first person they meet and family...

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Main Author: Yong, Shan Ting
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2023
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description Parents are the person who the child first comes into contact with when born. They play an important role in children’s development in which the growing environment formed by parents, the attitude and behaviors of parents will influence children. Parents will be the first person they meet and family is the first place where they grow up. Parenting becomes more important as children are strong learners. Thus, this research aims to study traditional and modern parenting from youths’ perspectives, and to study the most common parenting style used in Malaysia nowadays. The study used quantitative research methods while answering the Google survey form to collect the data from 120 Malaysian youths who are 18-25 years old. All the data will be analyzed by using Microsoft Excel and shown in tables. The findings of this research shows that there is a positive relationship between the RO Besides, the result also shows that the labels and terms which represent traditional parenting style and modern parenting style are also changing as time passes. Therefore, this research concluded that the characteristics of parenting style youths receive, they are more likely to apply in the future also, and parenting styles may continue to change through the generations. Keywords: Parenting Styles, Traditional and Modern Parenting Styles, Malaysian Youths, Characteristics of traditional and modern parenting styles, Differences of Traditional and Modern Parenting Style, Culture.
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spelling utar-63492024-04-16T14:38:20Z Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia Yong, Shan Ting H Social Sciences (General) HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Parents are the person who the child first comes into contact with when born. They play an important role in children’s development in which the growing environment formed by parents, the attitude and behaviors of parents will influence children. Parents will be the first person they meet and family is the first place where they grow up. Parenting becomes more important as children are strong learners. Thus, this research aims to study traditional and modern parenting from youths’ perspectives, and to study the most common parenting style used in Malaysia nowadays. The study used quantitative research methods while answering the Google survey form to collect the data from 120 Malaysian youths who are 18-25 years old. All the data will be analyzed by using Microsoft Excel and shown in tables. The findings of this research shows that there is a positive relationship between the RO Besides, the result also shows that the labels and terms which represent traditional parenting style and modern parenting style are also changing as time passes. Therefore, this research concluded that the characteristics of parenting style youths receive, they are more likely to apply in the future also, and parenting styles may continue to change through the generations. Keywords: Parenting Styles, Traditional and Modern Parenting Styles, Malaysian Youths, Characteristics of traditional and modern parenting styles, Differences of Traditional and Modern Parenting Style, Culture. 2023 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6349/1/Yong_Shan_Ting_FYP.pdf Yong, Shan Ting (2023) Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6349/
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Yong, Shan Ting
Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title_full Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title_fullStr Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title_short Perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in Malaysia
title_sort perceptions of youths towards traditional and modern approaches to parenting in malaysia
topic H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6349/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6349/1/Yong_Shan_Ting_FYP.pdf