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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand how male and female adolescents differ in their perspectives related to their parents’ participation in parenting education, based on which to provide practical suggestions to facilitate parental participation in parenting education programs. Method: Descriptive statistics, chi-square analysis, t-test, logistic regression, and OLS regression were performed using STATA 12.0 on data collected from 390 adolescents aged from 12 to 19 years old residing in Seoul. Results: First, only a small portion of both male and female adolescents were aware of parenting education programs, and their parents’ participation in such programs was also low. But more than half of respondents were in favor of their parents’ participating in parenting education, and intended to recommend parenting education programs to their parents. Second, female adolescents were more likely to be in favor of their parents participating in parenting education when their parents had experienced parenting education and when they did not share concerns with their parents. Male adolescent were more likely to agree with parental participation in parenting education programs when they were aware of the programs and when their parents had experienced them before. Third, female adolescents intended to encourage their parents to participate in parenting education when they acknowledged democratic parenting from their parents and did not share their concerns with them. Male adolescents intended to encourage parental participation when they knew about parenting education programs. Conclusions: Findings of this study suggest that parental participation in parenting education programs could also be facilitated through encouragement and recommendations by their adolescent child.

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