Summary: | The aim of this study is to find whether there is a relationship between parent-child interaction and adolescent misbehavior in one of the low cost housing flats area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data collection was done using the questionnaire. A total of 333 sub-samples of parents and 333 sub-sample of adolescent had been randomly chosen as the survey study sample.Result showed that there was a significant correlation between adolescent misbehavior with parent-child interaction. Further, a significant difference in parent-child interaction has resulted with regard to parent’s ethnicity, adolescent’s ethnicity and adolescent’s sex (p<0.01).There was also significant difference on adolescent misbehavior based on parent’s ethnicity, adolescent’s ethnicity and adolescent’s sex (p<0.01).
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