Parental Acceptance-Rejection in relation to Fantasy and Aggression towards Parents of Adolescence

Abstract

The objectives of the study are – to see whether there is any relation between parental acceptance and rejection with Adolescence’s Fantasy behavior and to see whether there is any relation between parental acceptance and rejection with Aggression towards Parents of Adolescence.  The questionnaire package comprising of Adult Version of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire for Father and Mother Version, Aggression Towards Parents and Fantasy Measure were administered on a sample of 960 Adolescents selected from different educational institutions of Dhaka City. The obtained data were analyzed by applying the Pearson Product moment correlation and t-test. Result of the correlation coefficient indicates that there is a significant correlation between PAR father version and Fantasy measure at 0.01 level. PAR father aggression/hostile and PAR father control have a significant positive relationship with fantasy at 0.05 level. There is a significant positive correlation among PAR father warmth/affection, PAR father rejection/indifference and aggression towards parents at 0.05 level. While fantasy measure and PAR father warmth/affection have a significant positive relationship at 0.01 level, and also there is a meaningful positive relationship between PAR father neglect/indifference and aggression towards parents at 0.01 level. On the other hand, complete PAR mother version and aggression towards parents have significant positive correlation at 0.05 level; there is a meaningful positive relationship between PAR mother warmth/affection, aggression towards parents at 0.01 level and also between PAR mother/warmth affection and fantasy measure at 0.05 level. PAR mother control has positively significant with aggression towards parents at 0.05 level. Result also indicate that the significant differences were found between male and female of PAR father neglect/indifference and PAR father control at 0.05 level. Finally, there is a considerable difference between male and female. On the other hand, Fantasy measure also is not valuable, and even here, there is a significant difference between male and female.