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The present study aimed at investigating the impact of authoritarian and authoritative parenting in home, health and emotional adjustment. Moreover, the study explored the relationship of parenting with Adjustment. Relationships of authoritative and authoritarian parenting with home, health and emotional adjustment of adolescents were compared. The sample of the study consisted of 200 college students (100 female and 100 male). They were selected from the different colleges of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. Age range of the sample was 16 to 19 years. Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ, Babree, 1997) and Indian Adaptation of Bell's Adjustment Inventory Scale (Sharma, 1988) were used in the study. Correlation and t-test were used to analyze data. Findings showed that adolescents raised by authoritative parents have better home, health and emotional adjustment as compared to adolescents raised by authoritarian parents. Authoritative parents have positive and authoritarian parents have negative relationship with home, health and emotional adjustment.
Key words: Authoritative Parenting, Authoritarian Parenting, Home Adjustment, Health Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment
The parent child relationship has important and significant impacts for a child. A parental style is an important component that shapes the child's views about themselves and their world. Parents are a source of producing healthy self-esteem, self worth, healthy thinking and behavior in children (Santrock, 2005).
Considerable research has focused on aspects of Parenting behavior and the parent-child relationship in order to understand the ways in which parents influence their children's functioning.
Researchers have found positive relationship between parenting and child outcomes including academic success, cognitive development, emotion regulation, and adjustment (Davidov, & Grusec, 2006; Denham, Workman, Cole, Weissbrod, Kendziora, & Zahnaxler, 2000; Laible, 2004; Pettit, & Spera, 2005). Several studies have demonstrated a relationship between pathological symptoms in children and family functioning (Dleiden, Vaseym, & Brown. 1999; Johnston, & Ohan. 1999).
Davies, Cummings, and Winter (2004) suggest that parenting style has a significant effect on children's behavior (Johnson, Kent, & Leather, 2005; Nair, & Murray, 2005; Steele, Nesbitt-Daly, Daniel, & Forehand, 2005). Compared with children who feel accepted by their parents, children who feel rejected display greater levels of hostility and aggression, dependency, defensive independence and emotional instability, lower self-esteem, and a more negative (Palmer, & Hollin, 2000; Rohner, & Britner, 2002; Russ, Heim, & Westen, 2003; Barnow, Lucht,...