Parenting style and emotional maturity

Pages: 492-496
Nisha Dilip Mundada (Department of Psychology and Career Counseling Centre, Pachora North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Maharashtra)

This Study analyzes the parenting Style and emotional maturity of 100 XI & XII Standard students from the Pachora town in Maharashtra state of India. Bharadwaj et al’s parenting scale and Singh and Bhargava’s emotional maturity scale were used. Majority of the respondents have developed acceptance, carelessness, realistic role expectation, marital adjustment and realism perceived on the models of parenting. The results of emotional maturity can be concluded that 9, 8, 29, 54 percent respondents had developed extremely emotionally mature, moderately mature, immature & extremely emotionally immature respectively. The models like acceptance, moralism, marital adjustment & behavior of mothers with their children in their interaction increase the emotional maturity. The other models & behavior of fathers with their children in their interaction also increase emotional maturity but is not significant in this study.