Impact of Parenting Style on Mental Health of Adolescents

  • Dr. P. V. Rasal

Abstract

Positive mental health is a key factor or important component of human health. The purpose of this study is to find out the influence of parenting styles on mental health of adolescentsand  to examine interaction effect between parenting style (permissive, authoritarian, authoritative ) and phase of adolescents (middle phase 15 to 17 age range, late phase 18 to 21 age range) on adolescent mental health. Total 240 adolescents were randomly selected as a sample, out of them 120 middle adolescences (age range 15 to 17 years) and 120 late adolescences (age range 18 to 21 years) in studyingthe attached high school and junior college of the Nashik city of Maharashtra (India).For this study parental authority questionnaire (PAQ) developed by Buri (1991)and mental health inventory (MHI) developed by Jagdish and Shrivastava (1983) were used. Mean, SD and two way ANOVA etc. statistics techniques were used for data analysis and interpreting.Results revealed that, parenting styles have significant influence over mental health of the adolescents in self-evaluation, personality, autonomy, group oriented attitude, environment competence and total mental health. Middlephase adolescents expressed more self-evaluation late phase adolescents.

Published
2019-12-24
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