Social correlates of parental attitudes toward education in the city of St. John's

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The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the attitudes of St. John's parents toward education were related to the social variables of religion, sex, family size, socio-economic level, and mother's education. -- The study was carried out among a sample of parents of grade six students in St. John's. Information was collected from the parents by means of a self-administered questionnaire and attitude scale. Socio-economic level was found by referring the occupation of the father of the family to the Blishen Occupational Scale. -- The attitude of the spouse was found to be the independent variable most closely related to the attitude of parents toward education. Socio-economic level was also found to be a reliable predictor of educational attitude. Both these variables were stronger predictors of attitude for Protestant than for Catholic parents. -- The number of children in the family was found to be inversely related to the attitudes of the mothers but not to those of

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