Preschoolers Parenting Styles of Generation Y and Z Parents
Keywords:
Parenting styles, Early Childhood, Generation Y and Z parentsAbstract
The objectives of this research were to: 1) examine the early childhood upbringing model of parents in generations Y and Z; and 2) compare the model of the early childhood upbringing of parents in generations Y and Z in Kalasin Province. The sample group in this study was parents who were born between 1985 to 2014 and were mainly responsible for taking care of children aged 3-6 years, and G* Power was utilized to establish a sampling group consisting of 210 individuals, with an equal division of 105 individuals each from generation Y parents and generation Z parents. The instrument used to collect the data was a questionnaire about the early childhood upbringing model. The data were analyzed using Z-score, mean, percentage, and t-test.
The results showed that: 1) Most generation Y parents had the most attentive parenting style, which represented 66.67 percent, followed by a democratic parenting model, which represented 30.48 percent. Most of the parents of generation Z had a controlled style of parenting, which was shown by 23.80% of the parents, followed by a democratic style of parenting, which was shown by 20.95% of the parents. 2) The early childhood upbringing model of parents in generation Z in Kalasin Province is different at a statistically significant level of .05.
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