Parenting Style Interviews with University of the Free State Humanities Students

Semi-structured interview transcripts from 10 Humanities students at the University of the Free State explore parenting styles, family environments, and academic readiness. The dataset contains qualitative accounts of family context and the transition to university. It is a 215.3 KB collection of DOCX files.

Use Cases

• Analyze qualitative themes in student accounts of parenting styles and family environments.
• Examine the relationship between described family structure and narratives of academic readiness.
• Code interview transcripts for mentions of specific parenting approaches and their perceived impact on university transition.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, under-researched population: 10 first-year Humanities students at a South African university.
• Provides rich qualitative data on parenting styles, family structure, and academic readiness from semi-structured interviews.
• Data is openly available under a CC BY 4.0 license for reuse and analysis.

Limitations

• Very small sample size of 10 participants limits statistical generalizability.
• Qualitative, text-based data in DOCX format requires manual coding and thematic analysis, not ready for direct computational use.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single university in South Africa.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected through purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews.

Time Range

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Geography

University of the Free State, South Africa