Parental support and its relationship to self-management among a sample of children of soldiers stationed at the border at the intermediate and secondary stages in Jeddah

Moalla Abdul-Allah Al-Ahmady, Hanan; Mohammad Amin Khojah, Khadija; Al-Sayed Ali Al-Kashky, Majda

doi:10.21608/jsre.2019.71280

Parental support and its relationship to self-management among a sample of children of soldiers stationed at the border at the intermediate and secondary stages in Jeddah

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ PhD Researcher, Department of Educational Guidance and Counseling, Institute of Educational Postgraduate Studies, King Abdul-Alaziz University, Saudi Arabia

² Department of Instruction and Educational Guidance, Institute of Educational Graduate Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/jsre.2019.71280

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the relationship between parental support dimensions and self-management dimensions and level of each and their differences according to educational stage of a sample of children of soldiers stationed on the Saudi border at the intermediate and secondary stages reached (203) students, and applied them a scale parental support for Amani Abdel-Maqsoud (2012) and the self-management measure of Huwaida Hanafi (2013), The study has reached several results, the most important of which are: a relationship between the total degree of parental support and the total self-management of the study sample, In the light of the results of the study, the researcher made several recommendations, the most prominent of which are: Activating guidance programs directed to parents to achieve parental support for self-management of children, especially in adolescence. Sons of soldiers stationed at the border by the relevant ministry of education and promote self-management programs and develop them through the curriculum

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Main Subjects

Educational psychology

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