Perceived democratic parenting style as a moderator of academic stress and mental health among adolescents

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Ritika and Gagandeep Kaur (Department of Education, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab)

The present study focused on academic stress and its relation with mental health of adolescents. The Present study was conducted on 120 adolescent students of class 9th of schools of Amritsar city. Data was analysed by using correlation and hierarchical multiple regression. Moderate and significant correlations were observed between academic stress, perceived democratic parenting style and mental health of the adolescents. To explore the overall effect of democratic parenting style as moderator in the relationship between academic stress and mental health of adolescents, the R2 values of the regression model that included academic stress and its interaction with perceived democratic parenting style was compared with the regression model having academic stress without interaction terms. Significant interaction effect of perceived democratic parenting style of adolescent and academic stress was observed in the analysis.