DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, PARENTING STYLES AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF UGANDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, KAMPALA CAPITAL CITY UGANDA

Abstract

The aim was to determine the main demographic factor, parenting styles and social emotional developmentand objectives of the study wasconductedto investigate the demographic factors, to the type of parentingstyles,to determinethe level of social emotionaldevelopmentand to establish the relationship of Demographic Factors, Parenting Styles and Social emotional Development among the deaf children attending Uganda School for the Deaf.This study employed the following methods included a face to facequestionnaire was used to carry out an interview towards the respondents and this lead to the quantitative data collection and the key informants were interviewed leading to qualitative data. The statistical package for social scientist was used to analyze data, chi squarewas used to find the relationship between demographic factors, parenting styles and social emotional development and the multi linear egression was used to find out the major causes of social emotional development amongThe study employed a descriptive, and crossectional design with a census of 74 pupils from primary5-primary7, data was collected using interview guide, key informants data was analyzed and presented in form of tables in frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation and p values and chi-square analysis.The study found out that there were more females 66.2% and children above 12 years were 45.9%. Theage of the child with p value0.021, authoritative 0.035and uninvolved 0.045 birth order had p value of 0.08 70.31, number of children 0.201and authoritarian had a p value of 0.136.A high percentageoflowsocial emotional development (63.5%)was found out among the deaf children attending Uganda School for the Deaf. The following variables were statistically significantchild age p=0.002, birth order p= 0.025 authoritative parenting style p= 0.008, permissive parenting style p=0.0338 and uninvolved parenting stylep=0.019