International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review
 

International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 4(6), pp. 174-181. December, 2016.

ISSN: 2360-7866

DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2016.014

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Parents play an important role in fostering their child‘s growth and development. The present study investigated the relationship between perceived parenting styles and perceived stress in a normal higher secondary school student sample (N=100). Buri’s Parental authority questionnaire and Sheldon Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, t test, Annova and correlation were used to analyze the data. Moreover our study also explored the perceived parenting styles and perceived stress with respect to different demographic variables (qualification, residence, mother’s occupation, and age and fathers occupation). It was highlighted that adolescents do differ significantly on perceived parenting style in terms of qualification. Perceived parenting style as indicated by authoritative and authoritarian were found significantly higher in 11th class students than 10th class students. The result also revealed there is no significant mean difference between 10th and 11th students on perceived stress. Results specified that there is no significant difference between adolescents who belong to rural and urban area on perceived parenting style. The result also showed that there is a significant residential difference among adolescents with respect to perceived stress. Perceived stress was found significantly higher in urban adolescents than rural adolescents. It is also found that there is no significant difference between respondents whose mothers were housewives and those whose mothers were employed on perceived parenting style. It was discovered that there is a significant difference between respondents with respect to mother’s occupation. Perceived stress was found significantly higher in adolescents whose mothers were housewife’s than working mothers. With respect to age it gets reflected that there is significant difference among adolescents on perceived parenting style with respect to authoritative and authoritarian facet. With respect to father’s occupation, adolescents do not differ significantly on perceived parenting style and perceived stress. Besides this, negative correlation was found between perceived parenting styles and the perceived stress.

Key Words: perceived parenting style, perceived stress, adolescents.
 

Cite This Article As: Hamid Z, Shah SA (2016). Exploratory study of perceived parenting style and perceived stress among adolescents. Inter. J. Acad. Res. Educ. Rev. 4(6): 174-181
 

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