Sebastiana Zimba Kalula, Tarryn Blouws, Maseabata Ramathebane, Abdul-Rauf Sayed
HIV and AIDS prevention: knowledge, attitudes, practices and health literacy of older persons in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa and in Lesotho
BMC geriatrics
aim study investigate extent adolescents achievement strategies associated parenting styles experience families three hundred fiftyfour 14yearold adolescents completed strategy attribution questionnaire family parenting style inventory analogous questionnaires also completed adolescents parents based adolescents report parenting styles four types families identified authoritative authoritarian permissive neglectful parenting styles results showed adolescents authoritative families applied adaptive achievement strategies characterized low levels failure expectations taskirrelevant behaviour passivity use selfenhancing attributions adolescents neglectful families turn applied maladaptive strategies characterized high levels taskirrelevant behaviour passivity lack selfenhancing attributions results provide basis understanding processes parenting styles may influence adolescents academic achievement performance