PARENTAL ATTITUDES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF ADULTS: THE GENDER ASPECT
The aim of the study was to examine the correlation between parental attitudes and psychological well-being of men and women. Our sample consisted of 40 men and 38 women, bringing up teenager children. Methods: Parental Attitude Research Instrument (Mother’s and Father’s PARI), Scale of Psychological well-being (Ryff ). Data processing methods: comparative analysis, correlation analysis. The research revealed that women with greater psychological well-being were inclined to establish friendly relations with their teen-aged children. They do not tend to demonstrate their power and dominance over the teenager. The higher the level of psychological well-being in men, the more they take on responsibility with regard to the education of the teenager. They promote self-assertion of the teenager, stimulating his/her ‘sense of maturity’