Educational practices as behavior and social competence problems predicting issues

Abstract

The Gomide's Parental Style Model (2003) is composed by seven educational practices that can be assessed using the Parental Styles Inventory: five of them are associated to the development of anti-social behaviors (physical abuse, inconsistent punishment, discipline absence, negative monitory and negligence), and two others that are considered propitious to the development of pro-social behaviors (positive monitory and moral behavior). The Child Behavior Check List is composed has two parts: the first assesses social competence, and the second behavior problems. The purpose of this paper was to point out the educational practices associated to the behaviors from the Child Behavior Check List. The sample of this paper was formed by 30 children whose ages were from 11 to 13, all of them studying at public schools. Also, one of each child's parents had participated as a volunteer of this sample. According to the statistic regression method, the data had shown that positive monitoring and moral behavior are pro-social behavior variables, and their absence associated to the negative practices are behavior problems ones.

educational practices; social skills; behavior problems