Stereotypes: Positive Or Negative Parenting Behavior?

On the first day of the class session, the participants were given a pre-test, which had contained a survey, before the session had begun. The class facilitators had passed out the surveys to the participants, which was a self-administered questionnaire. Each of the participants were given a participant code that was written down on the top of the survey document. The pre-test contained 26 questions (see Appendix A). The first ten questions had asked the participants about their demographic information such as the participant’s age, gender, ethnicity, education, number of children, and potential interactions with the Child Welfare system. The next four questions had explored the participants’ perspectives on specific parental behaviors. These …show more content…
For the pre-test, the participants were given an overall score, ranging from “0” to “21”. If the participants scored between “0 to 4”, it meant that they had exhibited significantly negative parenting behaviors. If the participants scored within “5 to 14”, it meant that the participants exhibited moderately negative parenting behaviors. Scores that ranged between “15 to 17” meant that the parents exhibited moderately positive parenting behaviors and scores ranging from “18 to 21”, signified that the parents exhibited significantly positive parenting behaviors. The scores for the post-test had ranged from “-8 to 33”. Participant scores that had ranged from “-8 to 12” represented the exhibiting of significantly negative parenting behaviors. Scores that ranged from “13 to 26” signified the exhibiting of moderately negative parenting behaviors. Scores that had ranged from “27 to 29” signified moderately positive parenting behaviors and scores between “30 to 33” represented significantly positive parenting behaviors. The overall scores were used to see if the experimental group had shown improvement after receiving the intervention and to assess if the intervention was effective by using the experimental group as a comparison to the control …show more content…
Prior to the submission, the researcher had completed the IRB tutorial (see Appendix D). To ensure the protection of the study participants, each individual in the study was provided with an online informed consent, which had contained very clear details about the study (see Appendix C). The individuals were notified in the informed consent that participation in this study was voluntary. Participants were informed that they would not incur any penalties, if at any time they wanted to withdraw from the study. Participants that were on the waited list were also informed that they would not lose their position on the waiting list. Each individual that participated in the study received a $50 visa