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Do values of parents influence subjective perspective of children's rights?
Urška Flerin, Anka Gogala & Zoran Pavlović
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Abstract: In the paper we research the impact of the value orientation and parent's contentmentwith the fulfilment of the values on subjective experience of children's rights. The project is a part of the international children's rights research, being conducted by International School Psychologist Association (ISPA), which is also being conducted in Slovenia. 194 children from the fourth and the eighth class and one of their parents voluntarily took part in the research. The sample was homogeneous in regard to the demography variables. The following questionnaires were used: The international research of children's rights (questionnaire for children and parents), the Musek's scale of values and The scale of contentment with fulfilment of values (both just for parents). The following working hypothesis, which were partially verified, were placed: (1) There are differences in subjective experience of children's rights from the perspective of a child and the perspective of a parent in regard to different age period of a child. (2) There are differences in subjective experience of children's rights from the perspective of children in regard to the value orientation and parent's contentment with the fulfilment of the values. (3) There are differences in subjective experience of rights from the perspective of children in regard to the different demographic variables. The research showed that the children from the fourth and the eighth class differently experience children's rights. The differences are bigger in the evaluation of the importance of the rights than in the experience of the assertion of the rights. The differences in regard to the view of the children's rights among the children's parents are not significant. The evaluation of the importance of values and the evaluation of the parent's contentment with the fulfilment of the values (mainly of the apollonian type) have an important influence on the evaluation of the importance and the adequacy of the children's rights. These evaluations have also an important influence on the experience of the children's rights assertion from the children's perspective. The research also showed a higher importance of parent's contentment with the fulfilment of the values. The rights for basic care are particularly significantly influenced by demographic variables. The children experience higher assertion and rate higher importance of their rights, if they come from four-member's families with two children, if their parents are married or if they live in cohabitation and if their parents are well educated and employed.
Keywords: children's rights, Convention on the rights of the child, values, parents, school age children, satisfaction
