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Influence Of Parenting Style On Self Esteem Of Children
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3.8Operational Definition of Terms
i.Influence:The
power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the
ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct,
thoughts or decisions.
ii.Parenting: Is the process of promoting and
support the physical, emotional, social, financial and intellectual
development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to
the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.
iii.Style: A manner of doing things, especially in a fashionable one.
iv.Self-Esteem:
Is defined as the extent to which an individual believes himself or
herself to be capable, significant, successful and worthy (Coopersmith,
1981).
v.Psychology:Is defined as the study of the human mind. It
could also be the mental, emotional and behavioural characteristics
pertaining to a specified person, group or activity.
vi.Social: It refers to a characteristic of living organism as applied to populations of humans and other animals.
vii.Attitude:
In psychology, an attitude is an expression of favour or disfavour
toward a person, place, thing or event (the attitude object). An
attitude is an evaluation of an attitude object, ranging from extremely
negative to extremely positive.
viii.Beliefs: Is the mental acceptance of a claim as truth regardless of supporting or contrary empirical evidence.
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