Thesis Title: Paternal Responsiveness, Moral Disengagement and Antisocial Behaviour in Late Childhood
Student Name: Sidra Mushtaq
Supervisor: Shahnila Tariq, PhD
Degree: BS
Year: 2014-2018
Department: Institute of Applied Psychology
University: Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
Corresponding Address: Department of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Email: chairperson@appsy.pu.edu.pk, Phone: 92-42-9231245
Abstract
The present study intended to find out relationship between paternal responsiveness, moral disengagement and antisocial behaviour in late childhood. It was hypothesized that there would be relationship between paternal responsiveness, moral disengagement and antisocial behavior; paternal responsiveness would predict antisocial behavior and moral disengagement would predict antisocial behaviour. Correlational research design was used and purposive sampling technique was employed to recruit the sample of N = 200 school children with age range 9-12 years. The research instruments included translated versions of Moral Disengagement Scale (Bandura, 1995), Paternal Responsiveness Scale (Pasquali, et al., 2011), and Anti-Social Behavior Scale (Koerhuis, 2007). Results revealed that there was a positive relationship between paternal responsiveness, moral disengagement and antisocial behaviour. Moreover, paternal responsiveness negatively while moral disengagement positively predicted antisocial behaviour. These results have implications in various research settings including increasing awareness of fathers about how much responsive they should become for the better upbringing of their child and provide better understanding about how moral disengagement can lead to antisocial behaviour.
Keywords: paternal responsiveness, moral disengagement, antisocial behavior, late childhood.
