Zeitschrift für Forschung und Entwicklung im Bereich Gesundheitserziehung

A Study to Assess the Perceived Parenting Style and Self-Esteem among Adolescents in Selected Schools of Belagavi City

Abstract

Nisha Thapa, Suvechhya Dewan and Pooja Gauro

Introduction: Adolescents are considered one of the essential assets in any culture. Parental styles have a significant effect on the growth of teenagers. In general, parents are the primary and most critical socializing agent of children and parents play a significant role in defining an individual's personality. Aim: This study was designed to assess the relationship between the perception of parenting style and self-esteem and the association of self-esteem with the selected demographic variables. Materials and methods: It is a correlational study in which a disproportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 240 adolescents between 13 and 17 years studying in 8th, 9th and 10th standards from two different schools. Data was collected using J. Buri's parenting style questionnaire and Rosenberg's self-esteem scale, where both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Results: The most preferred parenting style reported was authoritative (Mother: 77.13%, Father: 74.32%) and more than half, 67.8%, of the students had average self-esteem. There is a correlation between parenting style and self-esteem with mother r=0.2643, father: r=0.3102. The educational status and gender of the students were found to be significantly associated with the level of self-esteem. Conclusion: The majority of the parents follow an authoritative parenting style and there is a positive correlation between the authoritative parenting style and self-esteem.