Hanna Liberska

Aggressivness and aggressive behavior of youth and perceived by them parental attitude. Developmental perspective

The present paper verifies the assumptions about the importance of parental attitudes for the mechanism of formation of aggressive behavior in adolescents. It was carried out on the basis of a series of three studies. The aim was to assess the significance of any links between: parental attitudes and expression of aggressive behavior of the respondents in the second phase of adolescence (N = 237). The basic research question concerned the problem of stability and change during aggression in relation to the gender of respondents and their parenting attitudes. The study used: Parental’ Attitude Scale (SPR-2) (Plopa, 1987, 2005), tools for the study of aggression (Wójcik) and BPAQ (Buss, Perry, 1992). The research found that there are: (1) significant differences between girls and boys in their late adolescence in the manifestations of aggression, (2) a significant relationship between specific parental attitudes and adolescent aggressive behavior depending on the gender of children a,nd their parents’, (3) changes in the manifestation of aggressiveness depending on the cultural context. Constellations of parental attitudes have diagnosed, which substantially relate to the intensity of adolescent aggressive responses and the occurrence of physical forms of aggression. It was also found that the influence of parental attitudes on growing children’s aggressive behavior is limited by gender of the child and the parent.

Subjective and situational predictors of success in early childhood education: a developmental approach

The article presents the results of research on chosen symptoms and situational determinants of the “success at school” of a primary school pupil. It was assumed that for a child to adapt to the challenges posed by school the following factors were important: a sense of acceptance, a sense of support, a sense of social exclusion and the ability to assess one’s own achievements. The study involved 173 children from grades 2 to 5. Data were collected twice using three tools: SPAS questionnaire (Matějček, Vágnerová, 1992), SUSPO (Mikšík, 2004) and QSL authoring tool. The results show: 1) the role of subjective conditions and their changes over time, 2) the role of the climate in educational environment, and 3) the prospect for the optimization of and increase in the effectiveness with which children adapt to school in the first period of learning

Attachment style and partner relationships in early adulthood

Attachment is the basis for the creation of close interpersonal relationships. The destination of the analysis was to identify whether there is a link between attachment style and partner relationships and to determine whether factors such as: a form of relationship, gender, length of relationship, education, having children, number of previous relationships are important to the quality of relationships and the attachment partners’s style.

The study involved 120 people (marriage, engagement, cohabitation). Used “The Intimacy, Passion, Commitment Questionnaire” by Acker and Davis (1992, Wojciszke, 2005) expanded by an additional scale of “satisfaction from the relationship,” Partner Relations Questionnaire” by Kurt Hahlweg and “The Attatchment Style Questionnaire” for Mieczysław Plopa.

The results showed that the attachment style of partners is important for their relationship. It was found that the form and length of relationship, number of previous partners, children, education and gender are important for some relationship partners. The form of relationship and number of previous partners are also important for the secure attachment style. The obtained data showed that the attachment styles affect the quality of relationships.