Question

Does being overprotective towards your child cause him/her to rebel and/or make bad decisions in life?

Independent variable: Level of protectiveness of the child
Dependent variable: the decisions made by the child

***Need a check on this question, the variables, and the wording of it*** Or any other ideas of questions regarding the upbringing of a child** **Preferably a research question**

Answer 1

@Vocaloid @Shadow

Answer 2

Does being overprotective towards your child causes him/her to rebel and/or make bad decisions in life?
For the Independent Variable: It depends on how much you are trying to "Overprotect" your child, but; if it was a lot of overprotected. It would make him/her do bad things.
For the Depended Variable: It will make your child do more bad things/decisions because, you are not giving them space to deal with the problems and trying to make the better of decisions and other things as well
Hoped this helped! ~Ash Winter

Answer 3

@Nnesha are these good questions

Answer 4

the variables are fine, the only issue that might come up is that both the independent and dependent variable in this situation are hard to quantify/measure

Answer 5

How could I modify the question inorder to make it better

Answer 6

hm... I think "decisions" is a little vague, I'd pick something more specific performance in school, like grades, or perhaps number of disciplinary incidents in school, or some other aspect of a child's life that is a bit easier to quantify
just a suggestion

Answer 7

Does being overprotective towards your child cause him/her to rebel or act up in school?

Independent variable: Level of protectiveness of the child
Dependent variable: the behavior of the child when he gets away from the protection in school

Answer 8

Would this be better

Answer 9

"gets away from the protection" you mean, like, what the kid does when they're not in school?

Answer 10

no i mean that they are overprotected at home and at school they don't have their parents so do they act up

Answer 11

ohh I get it, I would probably phrase it more as "the behavior of the child when in school and not under the direct supervision of parents" to make it a bit more clear

Answer 12

anyway I think it's a better question now, if you want to actually do more research on this question, you could start by researching "authoritarian" (very strict/helicopter-type parenting) vs permissive (parents who let their kids have more freedom) and how it affects future behavior in school

Answer 13

"free-range" parenting is another thing to look at

Answer 14

Does the behavior of a child change when in school and not under the direct supervision of parents

Independent variable: Direct supervision of parents
Dependent variable: the behavior of the child in school

Answer 15

"Does overprotective parenting contribute to rebellion/bad behavior in school?"

something like that, you need to include both variables in the question somehow

Answer 16

Does overprotective parenting contribute to rebellion/bad behavior in school?

Independent variable: Overprotective parenting
Dependent variable: the behavior/ rebellion of the child in school

Answer 17

you had it better the first time, independent --> level of protectiveness
since you're comparing different degrees of protectiveness in parenting

Answer 18

Does overprotective parenting contribute to rebellion/bad behavior in school?

Independent variable: Direct supervision of parents
Dependent variable: the behavior of the child in school

Answer 19

"Level of protectiveness of the parents" is a fine way to state the independent variable

Answer 20

and is dependent variable okay?

Answer 21

I still think behavior is a bit vague, you could specify by saying "number of discipline incidents in school" or something

Answer 22

Does overprotective parenting contribute to rebellion/bad behavior in school?

Independent variable: Level of protectiveness of the parents
Dependent variable: number of discipline incidents in school

Answer 23

good

Answer 24

back to this so this is a research question, what would be a discussion question ?

Answer 25

uh, basically anything that encourages the responder to think about what questions the research raises and how they can be answered

so... like, "how might the different theories of psychology (psychodynamic, cognitive, psychosocial, etc.) explain the correlation between parenting and child behavior?"

Answer 26

PErtaining to what is in my book,,, How might the different domains of development explain the correlation between parenting and child behavior?

Answer 27

yeah something like that

Answer 28

for another one, perhaps asking them to identify examples of this correlation in real life/pop culture/fiction etc.

Answer 29

Got it! Thank you so much

Answer 30

if you've learned baumrid's parenting styles you can also ask about that too

Answer 31

Didnt learn that yet :( but prob will soon. Its child psychology so