| Summary: | The study described perceived differences in the choice of child rearing
practices aimed at correcting children’s inappropriate behaviors as
remembered by the participants at young adulthood. The sample consisted of
207 students of under-graduate studies of the University of Novi Sad. The
most of the participants does not have children and they grew up in complete
families. On the Dimensions of Discipline Inventory (A) (DDI-A, Straus,
Fauchier, 2007), the participants estimated the experience and methods of
disciplining which were used by their parents during their childhood. The
participants describe uniform discipline behaviors of their parents regarding
the estimated discipline techniques. These behaviors are dominated by the
punishing ones, and the differences between fathers and mothers are visible
in a stronger tendency to describe fathers as the ones who use corporal
punishment, abolish privileges and give restorative tasks. The described
discipline techniques for both fathers and mothers remain stable and similar,
regardless of the socio-demographic characteristics of the families as family
completeness, work experience and level of education of the parents, as well
as estimated economic status of the family.
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