Parental behavior of fathers as perceived by Kolkata adolescents

Pages: 30-33
Fouzia Alsabab Shaikh (Psychology Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Quality of father-adolescent relationships is often associated with overall life-satisfaction, level emotional distress and depression in adolescents (Field et al., 1995; Furstenberg & Harris, 1993; Zimmerman et al., 1995). However, it is the parental behavior of mothers that has received relatively more research attention than that of fathers.