To study parenting practices on adjustment pattern amongst early, mid and late adolescents group

Pages: 1016-1018
Shabahat Bano (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

This study was designed to examine the level of adjustment pattern amongst adolescents as a result of different parenting practices. A sample of 300 subjects, 150 male and 150 female between 11 to 20 years of age were taken. The tools used were Family relationship inventory, prepared by Brunken and Crites (1964)and Bell adjustment rating inventory (Hindi form) developed by Hussain, S. (1969).results showed that when mean comparisions were carried out among early, mid and late adolescents, the affect can be seen highest among late adolescents with m=48.10 on parental acceptance , and early adolescents’ parental acceptance m=30.93,while mid adolescent’s parental acceptance m=48.07, respectively. The late adolescents group showed highest adjustment level as it scored lowest on adjustment and its sub dimensions ( as a reverse relationship is existing between adjustment and the independent variables – parenting , by the use of adjustment inventory). Moreover, mid adolescents group have also been reported to score higher than the early adolescents group on adjustment and its sub-dimensions. This indicates that with each succession in age the capacity to adjust improves among adolescents. Thus,Parental availability has been hypothesized to influence human beings’ adjustment from early to late adolescence