Family Support and its Impacts on Adolescents’ Consumer Behavioral Dysfunctions

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1 Faculty of Specific Education, University of Kafr El-Sheikh

2 Home Economics, Faculty of Specific Education, Benha University

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Adolescence is a critical period in human life. During this growth stage, adolescents are most susceptible to the surrounding social environment influences and this may in turn affect their behaviors. The current study assumes that the disruptive behavioral disorders among adolescents are mainly related to family conflict. To test this hypothesis, 358 adolescents of different socio-economic levels were invited to take part in a descriptive-analytical study, while considering the following tools (1) a general family data form, (2) a family support measure (cognitive-psychological-material), and (3) a questionnaire on disruptive behavioral disorders among adolescents (voracious consumption – “health-compromising behaviors” – “non-functional demand for the commodity”). Results indicate that cognitive and total family support were higher in urban areas than in countryside, on the other hand material support were higher in rural than urban areas. Material support also increased with increasing family income, and this type of support was also affected by the educational level of mothers. The different dimensions of behavioral imbalances were negatively correlated with the different types of family support. It seems that adolescents’ voracious consumption increased significantly with increasing the family income. Adolescents also exhibited more health risk behaviors when their mothers were dead. Accordingly, the the hypothesis of the study becomes valid to explain the disruptive behavioral disorders among adolescents. It can therefore be deduced that integrated family support i.e. psychological, cognitive and material are needed to lessen such imbalances

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