PriMera Scientific Surgical Research and Practice (ISSN: 2836-0028)

Research Article

Volume 4 Issue 4

Parenting and the Development of Moral Judgement among Adolescents in the City of Maroua

Fangamla Tapmo Benjamin*

October 03, 2024

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Abstract

This study focuses on parental function and moral judgement among adolescents in the city of Maroua. It is based on the observation that adolescents in the city of Maroua are increasingly developing antisocial behaviour and that they have difficulty distinguishing between good and bad. This raises the problem of the quality of moral judgement in adolescents as a result of the way in which parents intervene in their upbringing, which leads to the research question: Does the exercise of parental authority influence moral judgement in adolescents? Our general aim was therefore to verify whether there is a link between parenting and moral judgement in adolescents. We opted for quantitative research. By way of methodology, a questionnaire was drawn up and administered to a sample of four hundred and three (403) adolescents aged 13-18, who were selected by means of simple random sampling. The study was based on four theories: Piaget's, Kolhaberg's and Brofenbrenner's theories of the development of moral judgement and Poussin's theory of the parental function. The data collected were subjected to a simple linear regression test using SPSS software version 20.2. Our hypotheses HR1 and HR2 were tested at 0.000 with Flu˂Fcal and a ddl1=1, ddl2=59 and the hypothesis HR3 was tested at 0.002 with Flu˂Fcal and a ddl1=1, dll2=35. As a result, our three hypotheses were confirmed with a margin of error of 5%. We arrived at the results according to which the exercise of the parental function influences the moral judgement of adolescents.

Keywords: parenting; moral judgement; adolescents; parenting; development

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