A CORRELATIONAL STUDY OF PARENTING STYLE AND ADOLESCENT’S

Abstract

For many decades, parenting styles has been a focus of attention for many researchers. This study aimed to find a correlation between parenting style and personality. It was hypothesized that children grown up under authoritarian parents are more extrovert and have less levels of psychoticism, neuroticism and lie as compared to adolescents of authoritative parenting. Authoritative parenting is an appropriate mix of nurturance, warmth and firm discipline. It fosters high achievement, self-reliance, social confidence and emotional adjustment in adolescents. Considering these positive impacts of authoritative parenting on children and adolescents, the study labeled authoritative parenting as much better parenting technique as compared to authoritarian parenting. To evaluate the aims of the study Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (junior) (Urdu version, 2007) was employed to 120 adolescents of two colleges of Abbottabad i.e. Army Burn Hall College and Pakistan International Public School and College. Convenient sampling technique is used to select the respondents of current study. Correlation and t-test was calculated to obtain statistically significant of results. The significant results supported the hypothesis. The results of current study can be used in training of parents, thus helping them to evaluate their parenting style and practice the one that can help them to raise emotionally healthy individuals.