Presence of the Father in Family and Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection
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Jun 15, 2019
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parental acceptance-rejection father’s presence perceived paternal acceptance-rejection perceived maternal acceptance-rejection
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Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPAR Theory), recently renamed from Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (PART), entails that children react crossculturally with consistence to the types of behavior perceived as “acceptance” and “rejection” primarily by their parents. The majority of studies also showed that the higher degree of father’s presence as caregiver within family, the more children feel to be accepted by both parents (Rohner, 1986). This study explores the relationship between the presence of father as caregiver and the perceived acceptancerejection in childhood, by using the short version of the Adults Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control questionnaire (Adult PARQ/C. Rohner, 2005. Rohner & Khaleque, 2008). 1117 students from various universities in Athens, Greece and in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina participated in this research. The multivariate analyses of variance findings suggest a fairly strong relationship between maternal and paternal perceived acceptance and father’s physical presence within family activity, as well as his involvement in raising a child duties. These findings are discussed in relation to empirical studies of the international literature of perceived paternal acceptance-rejection.
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Mrvoljak Theodoropoulou, I., Γκαρή Α., & Μυλωνάς Κ. (2019). Presence of the Father in Family and Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 24(1), 123–137. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.22390
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