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This study aimed to identify the relationship between parenting style and truancy problems among primary school students. A total of 186 primary school students were involved in this study. This study is a descriptive study using a questionnaire as a research instrument that contains three parts, na...

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Main Author: Ramachandran, Sivasanthni
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/99982/1/SivasanthniMPP2021.pdf
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Summary:This study aimed to identify the relationship between parenting style and truancy problems among primary school students. A total of 186 primary school students were involved in this study. This study is a descriptive study using a questionnaire as a research instrument that contains three parts, namely the background of the respondents, truancy information and parenting style. The research instrument in this survey study uses a questionnaire compiled by (Buri, 1991) that is the Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) is referenced and modified according to the level of primary school students. Truancy information is obtained through a truancy warning letter issued. A total of 47 students had received the first, second and third warning letters, the remaining 139 students had never received a warning letter. Descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze gender, residence of respondents, occupation of respondents’ parents, type of warning letter and most dominant parenting style, inferential statistics i.e. rank-spearman analysis to analyze relationship between parenting style and truancy. The results of the study found that authoritative parenting style is the most dominant parenting style among the respondents of this study. While neglect parenting style has a positive and significant relationship with truancy behavior. In conclusion, parents should play an important role in nurturing the responsibility of a good mother and father in guiding children for the sake of their future.