Influence of parents' attitudes on cooperation on the promotion of family participation in a preschool institution

Abstract

The research problem presented in the paper is aimed at considering the impact of parents' attitudes on cooperation on the promotion of family participation in preschool institutions. The aim of the research was to determine the factors that significantly determine the attitudes of parents about cooperation and readiness to include the family in the life and work of the preschool institution. The research started from the general hypothesis: parents' satisfaction with work and cooperation with the preschool institution directly affects the promotion of family participation in the preschool institution. As indicators of the impact of the independent variable (attitudes on cooperation) on the dependent (family participation) were monitored: age of parents (age), education of father and mother, number of children in the family, number of children attending kindergarten and areas of progress of children in kindergarten (estimated by the parents). The survey included 46 parents (present in institutions on the day of the survey. The results of the survey indicate that a higher level of formal parental education directly affects greater overall satisfaction with work and cooperation with preschool, with all independent variables individual contribution to explaining parental satisfaction with work and cooperation with preschool institution has a variable: father's education (b: 0.331 (0.006 - 0.100), p <0.05).