socially excluded locations, parental competencies, mothers.

The study focuses on understanding parental competencies among mothers from socially excluded areas. The aim of the research investigation is to explore how mothers from excluded localities perceive their parenting competencies and gain deeper insights into these abilities within the context of socially excluded environments. For the purpose of our study, a qualitative research approach was chosen, which allowed us to explore the phenomenon profoundly. The major tool for data collection was semi-structured interviews, whose questions were constructed in accordance with the concept of the Parenting Competency Model defined by Johnson et al. (2014). The research cohort consisted of 13 respondents coming from socially excluded localities and raising a child under the age of 1. Within the data analysis phase, the grounded theory method (Švaříček and Šeďová, 2014) was applied to extract deeper meanings and concepts implicit in the data. Based on the analysis, a model with a central category “Mother-Child Interaction” was created. Further, more profoundly described categories were 'demonstrations of affection', 'eating', 'bad habits', 'didactic aids' or 'health care'. This model describes the key topics of parenting competencies of mothers from excluded localities and their interrelationships.