Impact of perceived parenting styles on the emotional maturity among adolescents

Pages: 212-215
M. Trishala and Shilpa Kiran (Department of Psychology, BMS College for Women, Bangalore, Karnataka, India)

The aim of this study was to determine the emotional maturity (EM) and perceived parenting styles among adolescents. To investigate the same, a sample of 30 boys and 30 girls (aged from 14 years to 19 years) were selected, and were administered with EM scale and perceived parenting styles inventory-2. To analyze these data Statistical tool of t-test, Pearson correlation were used. The findings indicated that there is no gender difference in EM , adolescence differs in the perceive parenting styles and adolescents with perceived parenting styles of autonomy styles and responsive styles had high EM compared to demanding perceived parenting styles.