Perceived Parental Accompaniment among School-Attending Adolescents: A Field Study in the City of Touggourt

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the level of perceived parental support among adolescents. It also sought to identify differences in the level of perceived parental support according to the variables of: (gender, age, educational level), adopting the descriptive method appropriate for this type of study. In order to ensure the achievement of the main objective of the current study, the researcher worked on constructing the Perceived Parental Support Scale for Adolescents. After verifying its psychometric adequacy, it was applied to the target sample, which consisted of (146 male and female adolescents) selected randomly from school-attending students in some educational institutions in Touggourt Province. The data were statistically processed using SPSS version 20. The study resulted in the following findings:

- There was a high level of perceived parental support among the sample members.

- There were no statistically significant differences in the level of perceived parental support among the sample members attributable to the variables of: (gender, age, educational level).