GAONKAR, VKASE, KALAVATI L2019-09-132019-09-131999No . of references 83http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810127749The present investigation was designed to know the influence of the home environment and parental characteristics on parenting styles of accepted and rejected preschool children. The study was carried out in Dharwad taluk and in Dharwad city. The sample comprised of 128 preschool children and their parents. Data was collected through questionnaires from literate parents and interviewed personally by the investigator for illiterate parents. The results revealed that parents of rural accepted children were significantly higher on inductive parenting than parents of rejected children. Accepted children had significantly better home environment than rejected children in both rural and urban areas. Parents of rural accepted children had significantly lower anxiety and better temperaments than parents of rejected children. Better home environment significantly promoted the inductive parenting style of rural accepted children. The anxiety of father and temperament of mother significantly influenced fathers parenting style by tending towards power assertive among rural rejected children. Anxiety of father significantly influenced mothers parenting styles, tending towards power assertive among urban rejected children. Temperament of father significantly influenced fathers parenting styles by tending towards power assertive style among urban rejected children. Combined effect of sociodemographic factors, home environment and parental characteristics brought a significant variation of 73 percent in fathers parenting styles among rural accepted children. While, it was 79 percent In case of urban rejected children. However, the parenting style of father did not vary significantly in case of accepted children. Similarly, mothers parenting styles was not significantly influenced by the selected factors, either among accepted or rejected group.ennullThesis