Stavovi studenata pedagogije prema samohranom majčinstvu

Čekolj, Nadja. (2015). Stavovi studenata pedagogije prema samohranom majčinstvu. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Pedagogy
Department of Sociology. [mentor Galić, Branka and Kušević, Barbara].

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Abstract

The thesis focuses on single motherhood, i.e., three categories of single motherhood: widows, divorced mothers and single mothers by choice. Single mothers are defined as mothers who independently care for a child without any assistance from another parent. The goal of the thesis is to compare attitudes towards the aforementioned categories of single motherhood. The study was conducted on first year undergraduate and first year graduate pedagogy students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. An additional goal is the differential analysis of pedagogy students attitudes based on their own socio-demographic and socio-cultural characteristics. For the purpose of the study, a questionnaire with subscales was constructed. The subscales are the following: Economic security, Mental health, Assessment of the greater need for formal social support, Supervision, Support, and Punishment. The survey method was used to conduct the study. An appropriate quota sample of first year undergraduate and graduate pedagogy students was surveyed (N=110). Univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical methods were used. Results showed that pedagogy students have a generally positive attitude towards single motherhood; however, differences in attitudes occur depending on the single motherhood category. Students have more positive attitude towards single mothers by choice, while divorced single mothers were shown the least positive attitudes. On the Assessment of the greater need for formal social support subscale, students have more positive attitudes towards widows; single mothers by choice, however, were shown the least positive attitudes on this subscale. Statistically significant differences were found on some variables such as sex, years of study and the family structure in which the respondents spent most of their life. Female students have more positive attitudes towards all categories of single motherhood, and first year graduate students have more positive attitudes than first year undergraduate students, except on the Support subscale. Students that spent most of their life in a single-parent family have more positive attitudes towards single motherhood on the Assessment of the greater need for formal social support subscale than respondents that live in two-parent families. The conclusion is that surveyed students have a greater chance of creating a positive partnership with single mothers because of their positive attitudes.

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