PARENTING STYLES AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF ADOLESCENTS
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2004
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ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
Abstract
Parents occupy the most important place in the perceptual world of the
child and generally feel ambivalent towards the adolescents’ maturity and
movement away from the family. They also want to steer their child away from
the problem that they experienced in becoming adults.
Steinberg’s (1990) research indicated that a majority of parents feel that
the adolescent years are the most difficult ones for child rearing. It has
generally been observed that in addition to genetic factors, child-rearing
practices play a vital role, in the development of a child particularly the
disciplining practices are considered more important.
Inspite of rapid changes within the modern family, parental disciplining
is very essential for building healthy emotionality and personality of the child.
Emotional intelligence is essential for the success of an individual. So in the
present study an attempt was made to examine the influence of parenting styles
on the emotional intelligence of adolescents. It also examined the relationship
between the demographic, social and personal variables and parenting styles
and emotional intelligence.
The Parental Interactional Style Questionnaire developed by Vivekan
Reddy (1996) was used to elicit information regarding selected demographic
variables and also the parenting styles adopted by the parents. Emotional
Intelligence Inventory developed by Uma Devi and Mayuri (2003) was used to
find out the emotional intelligence of the adolescents. The sample comprised of
120 parents with equal number of parents in each parenting style and their
children between the age range of 15-17 years from the city of Visakhapatnam.
The data collected were subjected to correlation co-efficient and F test. Parts of
the data was presented in frequencies and percentages.
In the authoritative parenting style most of the boys had above average
scores on emotional intelligence. Coming to the sub scales and their
dimensions, adolescents with authoritative parents were assertive, more
socially responsible had more stress tolerance and impulse control, compared
to the adolescents of authoritarian and permissive parenting styles.
The findings of the study indicate that education of the parents plays an
important role in influencing the adolescents on dimensions like self-regard,
problem solving, stress tolerance and impulse control. Adolescents from large
families were good at problem solving and had happy disposition, adolescent
boys were more socially responsible and had better impulse control than girls.
The results indicated were in congruence with Baumrind’s findings that
children of authoritative parents were cheerful, socially responsible; self-reliant
achievement oriented, had excellent social skills and were co-operative with
adults and peers. By contrast children of authoritarian parents tended to be
moody, easily annoyed and unfriendly. Children of permissive parents were
often impulsive and aggressive; tend to be bossy and self-centered lacking in
self control and quiet low in independence and achievement.
Findings of the present study helps us to understand the influence of
parenting styles on the emotional intelligence of adolescents. It can create
awareness among parents, educators and counsellors and help them to have a
closer look at emotional intelligence and its role in making an individual
successful.
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PARENTING, STYLES, EMOTIONAL, INTELLIGENCE, ADOLESCENTS