Impact of parenting styles on adolescent resilience

Pages: 937-944
Huda Firoze and Shahana Sathar K.P. (Department of Psychology, Farook College, Calicut, Kerala)

The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of parenting styles on adolescent resilience. The data was collected from 140 adolescents that include 70 boys and 70 girls from different schools in Calicut district. Tools used for this purpose were Connor Davidson’s Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Scale of Parenting Styles. Pearson’s Correlation coefficient and t-test were used for statistical analysis. Results show that there is a significant relationship between dimensions of parenting styles. Based on gender, resilience is seen higher in girls than boys. Authoritative parenting style is associated with higher resilience. Results also indicate that there is a significant difference in the dimensions of parenting style among adolescent boys and girls. Some of the limitations of the study are the sample size being small and its generalizability being limited, the participants had a tendency to answer in socially desirable way since it was a self-report data, number of items in scale of parenting styles being large.