Abstract
The present study intended to explore the relationship between parental acceptance-rejection and delinquent behaviour among the adolescents of slum areas. The study sample consisted of 200 adolescents having an equal number of boys (n=100) and girls (n=100) with the age range of 13-17 years and informants (n=188) within the age range of 28- 60 from the slum areas of Islamabad. The sample was approached from the slums of F-7 sector, Fauji Colony and Railway track near H-10 sector with the help of convenient sampling technique. To measure the perception of adolescents about their parents the Urdu translated Child version of Parental Acceptance-Rejection questionnaire (Rohner, 2005; Malik, 2011) was used. The reliability coefficient for Father Version and Mother Version was calculated to be .89 and .90 respectively. Whereas, for measuring the delinquent tendencies Self-Reported Delinquency Scale (SRDS) and Informant Reported Delinquency Scale (IRDS) (for boys) and SRDS-F and IRDS-F(for girls) were used. Strong correlation was found between all the measures that were significant at p<0.01.
Keyword(s)
parental acceptance-rejection, Delinquent Behaviour, Slum Areas, Self