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    PERCEPTION OF PARENTS AND ADOLESCENTS ON PARENTING: A SOCIOCULTURAL STUDY
    (AAU, Jorhat, 2018-03) Begum, Toslima Sultana; Phukan, Minoti
    Parenting is defined as purposeful activities aimed at ensuring the survival and development of children. A better understanding on parenting may be achieved when one can understand how adolescents perceived their parents’ involvement in their upbringing. Children’s perception of parenting are better predictor of their behaviour and psychological development (Buri, 1989 and Paulson, 1994). Again parents and young people can hold quite divergent perception of parenting (Smetena, 1995). Thus a study on “Perception of parents and adolescents on parenting: a sociocultural study” was undertaken in Barpeta district of Lower Assam. Sample comprised of 200 adolescents and their parents. To make the sample representative equal numbers of boys and girls from both rural and urban areas were selected. Adolescents under the age group of 16 to 17 years and who lived with their biological parents were selected for the study. The tools designed was a parenting style questionnaire comprising of 32 items in four parenting styles as subscale .A semi-structured interview schedule consisting of statements pertaining to the objectives of the study was also designed. To collect socioeconomic status and back ground information of the respondent a questionnaire by O.P. Aggrawal was used. Results revealed that Majority of the respondents were follower of Hinduism and belonged to OBC/General category. Majority of the respondents belonged to the nuclear type of family system. Most of the respondent family had their monthly income in the range of Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 9,999 and were belonged to lower middle class families. Rural and urban respondents were not significantly different with respect to their overall socio-economic status. Regarding the perception on parenting style, parents perceived their parenting style as authoritative parenting style with highest mean scores of 33.68 and standard deviation 5.03 followed by authoritarian parenting style (mean= 29.2, SD =5.681). Same as their parents adolescents perceived their parents parenting style as authoritative parenting style with highest mean scores of 33.22 and standard deviation 4.79 followed by authoritarian parenting style (mean= 28.81, SD =5.4). No significant difference was found between urban and rural adolescents in relation to their perception of four types of parents’ parenting styles i.e. authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, permissive parenting style and uninvolved parenting style. No significant difference was also observed between rural and urban parents in relation to their perception on all four types of parenting styles i.e. authoritative parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, permissive parenting style and uninvolved parenting style. Family income and occupation had positive relationship with authoritative parenting style as perceived by parents and adolescents and negatively associated with parents’ education, number of siblings and overall socio economic status of the family. Perceived authoritarian parenting style by both parents and adolescents had positive relationship with income, occupation, education of parents and number of siblings and overall socio-economic status of the family. No significant gender difference was observed in adolescents’ perception on their parents’ parenting styles and in-between perception of boy’s parents’ parenting style and girl’s parents’ parenting style. Most of the rural and urban parent’s perceived problems in different aspects of parenting which creates stressed on them. Most of the adolescents also had perception on their parents’ problem in parenting them. Developing a parenting module and creation of awareness programmes on different aspects of parenting adolescents inconsideration with contemporary parenting style adopted by parents is needed for both rural and urban parents.