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Publication Date: 2015
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Botswana School Child Parents: Their Personal and Community Relationships Contexts for Counselling
Ntinda, Kayi; Mpofu, Elias; Bender, Benza; Moagi, Sophie
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, v43 n5 p546-558 2015
The study determined personal-socio-contextual influences that predicted the perceived quality of relationships with Batswana early teenage mothers. The participants were 86 Botswana high school students (mean age 18.97, SD = 1.76) with motherhood. They completed a numerical measure of adjustment to teenage motherhood in the context of family, school and community and also culture and social policy. A proportion of the teenagers (10%) participated in focus group discussion on the same aspects. The quantitative data were analysed to predict family, interpersonal, school and community interpersonal relationships from the teenage mothers' age, age of parents and living arrangements. The qualitative focus group discussion data were thematically analysed. Findings suggest that supportive living arrangements were instrumental to perceived quality of interpersonal relationships in the family and the school and community relationships. Gendered roles of the parents were social capital for family and school and community relationships with teenage-hood. Living arrangements and parental social discounting qualities reliably predicted teen mothers' social outcomes important for early parenthood counselling.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Mothers, High School Students, Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Cultural Influences, Social Influences, Family Influence, School Role, Statistical Analysis, Focus Groups, Interpersonal Relationship, Community Attitudes, Age Differences, Parents, Place of Residence, Environmental Influences, Sex Role, Social Capital, Questionnaires, Likert Scales, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Botswana
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