Gender discrimination in parenting styles of adolescents living in Delhi-NCR

Pages: 1102-1104
Neha Dutt and Nudrat Jahan (Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana)

Adolescence is a phase in which boys and girls both goes through tremendous physical, social and emotional changes. Parenting during this period has a significant role. It is found that parents have different parenting styles for boy and girl child all over the country. Parents living in metro cities become more liberal when it comes to gender sensitivity. Therefore a study to find the gender difference in parenting styles in metro cities of India is much needed. Objective of the present study is to study the gender difference in parenting styles of adolescents living in Delhi-NCR. A survey was conducted in schools of Delhi-NCR to fulfill the research objective. A sample of 431 adolescents studying in class 8th to senior secondary school were selected by using purposive sampling method. Sample includes 241 males and 190 female adolescents. Parental Authority Questionnaire developed by Buri (1991)was use to collect the data. This measure assesses three types of parenting styles Permissive, Authoritarian, and Authoritative style. Result of this study reported that parents are using mixed parenting styles and there is no significant difference in parenting styles of adolescents boys and girls living in Delhi-NCR. No Gender Discrimination was found in parenting styles of adolescents living in Delhi-NCR.