Parenting Styles as Predictors of Social, Emotional, and Academic Maturity in Adolescents
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64149/J.Carcinog.24.9s.427-446Keywords:
Observed, predicted, and standard residual for AR, Observed, predicted, and standard residual for SMAbstract
Aim: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the influence of parenting style as a predictor of emotional, academic and social maturity of the adolescents. In addition, finding the most suitable parenting style to improve overall maturity is also an aspect that has been focused on in this study.
Methods: The primary quantitative method has been incorporated in this study, where 110-sample size has been selected by using purposive sampling. Adolescents aged from 14 to 17 are surveyed using scales of Parenting Style by Robinson et al., Rao’s Social Maturity, Emotional Maturity by Singh and Bhargava and Academic Resilience by Cassidy are used for the survey. Then MANOVA and Correlation analysis are performed on the collected data.
Finding: The findings showed that parenting style (PS), an independent variable, is correlated with dependent variables, namely social maturity (SM), emotional maturity (EM) and academic resilience (AR) of the Indian adolescents at the significant level p<0.05. In addition, the authoritative PS was found to have more impact on the EM, AR and SM at the significant level p<0.05.
Conclusion: The parenting style has a significant impact on the Indian adolescents’ social, academic and emotional maturity. While the authoritative PS is found to have more influence on the SM, EM and AR of Indian adolescents.
