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A Comparative Study between the Methods of Democracy,
Dictatorship, Idleness and Excessive Protection Used by Parents
from the Viewpoint of the Talented Students in the City of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Zahrani, Mohammad Zuri Bin Ghani, and
Aznan Che Ahmad

Abstract

The present study aims to compare the methods of democracy, dictatorship, idleness and excessive protection used by parents from the viewpoint of the talented students whose ages range (13-15) years from the male and female and who have been selected according the criteria for selecting the talented students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study sample consists of (33%) members of the study community after excluding pilot study sample which comprises (50) male and female students. As such, what is left is (292) students. The study sample has been randomly and intentionality chosen. The scale of democratic, authoritarian, excessive protection and negligence family upbringing has been used after checking the psychometric features. The study has reached into the conclusion that the study sample individuals are distributed between the democratic and authoritarian patterns. Half of the respondents favored the democratic pattern with their talented children and other half favored the authoritarian pattern with their talented children. All the study sample individuals favored the excessive protection pattern with their talented children. None of the respondents have shown interest in using the idleness pattern with their talented children. The study has recommended that the parents should not use the authoritarian pattern in upbringing the children due to the negative effect on the children. Besides, the parents of the talented students should balance between the excessive pattern and the negligence pattern and not to significantly over use the excessive pattern.

Key Words: methods of democracy, parental acts, impact on talented students, City of Jedda

Introduction

Family plays an active role in the normal growth of the personality of their children. It is the most influential factor in the health and psychological normality in childhood. It also counts as the basic source of information and skills and the most important institution through which the child receives care, guidance and values (Shinawi, 1998) and through which the child is imbued with the family upbringing, values and standards and oriented-rules for his actions and behaviors. Within this context, the family atmosphere affects the growth of the son and his behavior and trends as well. It is also mostly associated with the patterns and methods through which the parents perform the roles assigned to them (Bin Auf, 2009). In this regard, Al-Jabali (2000) pointed out that the family upbringing marred with various problems and deviations will reflect on all its members and on its cohesion, stability and harmony among its members.

The family has to provide a culturally rich environment to stimulate the talented child and to push him to search for places he wants to visit, things he wants to do, tasks he wants to accomplish and lessons he wants to learn. Moreover, it is useful to stimulate dialogue with the child and to listen to his opinions and views and his participation in addressing the topics of his interest (Subhi & Joseph 1992). The normal family upbringing is one of the indicators judging the progress or backwardness of society. Therefore, the rates of infant death, rates of disability and the components of the culture of the child and the rates of disabilities and behavioral deviations among them give the indicators for the comparison between the communities in terms of progress or backwardness. In this regard, Belsky, Steinberg, Halpern and Felsher (2010) argue that the harsh treatment of the mother to her children predicts a behavior oriented towards behavioral riskiness among these children at an early age and having drugs, alcohol, delinquency and patterns of aggressive behavior in addition to increasing the chance of behavioral deviation (Kettani. 2001).

The contemporary Saudi family represents the small social unit of the big systemic functions in the Saudi social construction which consists of two generations (parents and children only) and it performs the biological function by supplying the Saudi society with the human elements (children ) and also it performs the role of educator in transferring the cultural heritage to the children so that they acquire the Arabic language, customs, family regulations, religious teachings, and the behavioral practices (Al-Omar, 2006).

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Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Zahrani, Ph.D. Candidate
Moh_a_z@hotmail.com

Mohammad Zuri Bin Ghani, Ph.D.
drzuri@gmail.com

Aznan Che Ahmad, Ph.D.
drnan6873@gmail.com
School of Education Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

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