Author: Zahra Jaleel Qureshi
Supervisor: Farah Malik, PhD
Degree: BS
Year: 2011-2015
University: Institute of Applied Psychology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract
The present study investigated the relationship between temperamental surgency, perception of parents and social competence in early adolescents. It was hypothesized that there would be a positive relationship between temperamental surgency, perception of parents and social competence of early adolescents; temperamental surgency and perception of parents would predict the social competence. Moreover perception of parents will moderate the relationship between temperamental surgency and social competence. Sample comprised of 160 early adolescents (80 girls and 80 boys) with age range of 11-15 years (M = 12.71, SD = 1.21). Data were collected from students of grade 6th to 8th of two English and two Urdu medium schools in Lahore. Urdu versions of Early Adolescents Temperament Questionnaire (Ellis & Rothbart, 2001), Perception of Parents Scale (Grolnick, Ryan, & Deci, 1991) and Social Competence Scale for Adolescents (Shujja & Malik, 2014) were used. The results of Pearson product moment correlation indicated significant positive relationship between temperamental surgency and social competence and partially significant relationship between mother as well as father perception and social competence. Hierarchal Regression analysis indicated that mothers’ involvement, fathers’ autonomy support and fathers’ warmth predicted social competence. The moderation analysis through PROCESS revealed that only mother’s involvement significantly moderated the relationship between temperamental surgency and social competence whereas the moderated moderation revealed that mother autonomy support and father autonomy support together moderates the relationship between temperamental surgency and social competence. The results of MANOVA depicted significant differences of education system in temperamental surgency, social competence, mother autonomy support, mother warmth, father involvement and father warmth. The interaction between gender and education system was significant for social competence.
Keywords: Temperamental Surgency, Social Competence, Early Adolesecnts.
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Corresponding Address: Department of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Email: chairperson@appsy.pu.edu.pk, Phone: 92-42-9231245
