First Assignement-Data Management

Data set

After looking thoroughly all the data sets, I have decided to choose addhealth one. As I am a teacher in a high school,  I strongly believe that a little research on puberty will help me to become a better teacher.

 Topic of Interest (code book)- Relations with Parents

I am interested in Relations with Parents.

We all know that Parents play the primary role for the growth of their child. Furthermore, there is no doubt that dad has a tremendous impact on his child and every child needs a dad to count on.

In particularly how the relationship between father children can be influenced by the quality time a father has with his children.  

First question

How close do you feel to your

{FATHER/ADOPTIVE FATHER/STEPFATHER/FOSTER

FATHER/etc.} associated with Which of these things (played a sport or

talked about your school work or grades )

have you done with your {FATHER/ADOPTIVE FATHER/

STEPFATHER/FOSTER FATHER/etc.} in the past 4 weeks?

The variables I am going to use are:

How close do you feel to your FATHER             H1WP13

played a sport    H1WP18B

talked about your school work or grades                         H1WP18H

 A second topic is how too much expectations from the side of a father can also have negative influence on how a child feels close to his father.

The variables I will use are:

On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is low and 5 is high, how disappointed

would she be if you did not graduate from high school?                          H1WP12

Literature review

The two topics I am going to discuss are:

 First

How the quality time, which a father spends with his children, proved crucial for a strongly relationship between them.

According to a Gallup Poll, 90.3 percent of Americans agree that fathers make a unique contribution to their children’s lives.”

Source:

Gallup Poll, 1996. National Center for Fathering. “Father Figures.”

Adolescence is a turbulent period for each child. During this period children try to find themselves and become more independent in order to be able to overcome the later difficulties of everyday life. They have to make decisions for the studies e.t.c. This situation causes anxious to them and many times it is possible that children become aggressive or take bad grades in school. In my opinion, children with involved fathers will have fewer difficulties in their adolescence as they feel close to their father and feel that they have someone to support them.  We can build strong relationship during day-to-day life for example, to play a sport together or to have a few free minutes talking with them about their problems. For instance, let’s have a conversation about your school.

Source:

National center for fathering

(http://www.fathers.com/)

 The second topic is

How do parental and particularly father expectations affect the relationship with their kids.

We live in a competitive society and in order our children to survive and to find a dream job they should have at least a degree. As a result, many times parents pressure their children to excel. On the other hand, due to the fact that the children want to be approved by their parents feel that it is difficult for them to address the high expectations of their parents and finally isolated from them.   

Source:

https://mom.me/