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The influence of maternal responsiveness on emotional health as perceived by grade 10 students in Cupang, Antipolo City in the Philippines

Ae-Sun Yun

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This study is quantitative descriptive research regarding Perceived Maternal Responsiveness (Acceptance/Rejection) and Adolescents’ Emotional Expressiveness. It investigates the perceived maternal responsiveness and its influence on the emotional health, particularly emotional expressiveness, of Grade 10 students in Cupang, Antipolo City in the Philippines by answering the following sub-research questions: 1) What is the demographic of this group of participants in terms of age, gender, relationship of residing female parent/caregiver, and the number of years residing with a significant female caregiver? 2) Do the mothers of Cupang, Antipolo City in the Philippines demonstrate either acceptance or rejection as measured by CHILD Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ): Mother (Short Form)? and 3) Does the perceived maternal responsiveness, as measured in selected adolescent participants, influence youth’s emotional health? The current study utilized the ‘Child Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ): Mother (Short Form)’ to measure perceived maternal responsiveness and the ‘Emotional Expressive Scale’ to measure the participants’ emotional health, particularly emotional expressiveness. For data collection, 250 Grade 10 students participated in the current study both online (79 students) and offline (171 students). Data gathered from the two survey questionnaires yielded the following findings: For the first sub-research question on demographics, there are no significant differences in the response in terms of age and gender. However, in terms of the relationship of residing female parent/caregiver, those who live with their biological mothers perceived a higher maternal acceptance than those who live with their stepmothers and other female caregivers. For the demographics pertaining to the number of years residing with a significant female caregiver, those living with their significant female caregivers were emotionally more expressive than those not living with any. For the second sub-research question on whether the mothers of Cupang, Antipolo City in the Philippines demonstrate either acceptance or rejection as measured by CHILD PARQ: Mother (Short Form), the majority response revealed maternal responsiveness styles as acceptance in a target area. According to the participants’ demographic profile, 211 of the respondents (84%) live with their biological mothers while five students (2%) reside with their stepmothers and 34 students (14%) with other female caregivers. The researcher focused on maternal responsiveness of significant female caregivers. Thus, the relationship between respondents and their fathers was excluded as it may be a mediating factor. For the third sub-research question on whether the perceived maternal responsiveness, as measured by the Grade 10 students, influence youth’s emotional health, the perceived maternal responsiveness was correlated with the perceived emotional expressiveness. Hence, to answer the main research question ‘How does the perceived emotional responsiveness of a mother/primary female caregiver, as gauged by the responses of the Grade 10 students, influence the adolescents’ personal perceived emotional in the Cupang, Antipolo City in the Philippines?’, the findings conclude that participants who perceived a higher level of maternal acceptance showed a higher level of emotional expressiveness than those with a lower level of perceived maternal acceptance. These findings might advocate the importance for significant female caregivers, especially biological mothers, to reside with their sons and daughters, particularly the adolescents as the focus of this study, in order to promote emotional expressiveness as one of the components of emotional health. Furthermore, teachers, counselors, social workers, church, government, and private companies should likewise acknowledge the importance of a strong motherson/daughter relationship to promote the emotional health. With that being said, it is highly recommended for these institutions to consider thoughtful intervention programs that will encourage and empower mothers to practice warm and supportive acceptance and to increase the adolescents’ emotional expressiveness that will nurture their emotional health. For this purpose, the researcher developed curriculum that trained practitioners can use (see Appendices R and S).

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Publish Year: 2022

Subject Index

KeywordsMaternal responsiveness, emotional expressiveness, Adolescence

Degree AwardedDoctor of Philosophy in Holistic Child Development

Awarding InstitutionAsia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary

Committee MembersNativity A. Petallar, Peggy J. Oldham, Romerlito Macalinao, Floyd T. Cunningham, Indrijanti Mali Limanta

Supervisor or ChairIrene S. Yang

Peer Reviewed?No

Place of PublicationPhilippines

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This collection contains the dissertations of our graduates that fulfilled the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Holistic Child Development at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. The program is designed for those preparing to be equipped in leadership, teachers of children, practitioners, and pastors, so that they will have the gifts, skills, and capacity to care holistically for children inside and outside the church.