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The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of parenting styles on adolescent resilience. The data was collected from 140 adolescents that include 70 boys and 70 girls from different schools in Calicut district. Tools used for this purpose were Connor Davidson's Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Scale of Parenting Styles. Pearson's Correlation coefficient and t-test were used for statistical analysis. Results show that there is a significant relationship between dimensions of parenting styles. Based on gender, resilience is seen higher in girls than boys. Authoritative parenting style is associated with higher resilience. Results also indicate that there is a significant difference in the dimensions of parenting style among adolescent boys and girls. Some of the limitations of the study are the sample size being small and its generalizability being limited, the participants had a tendency to answer in socially desirable way since it was a self-report data, number of items in scale of parenting styles being large.
Keywords: parenting styles, resilience, adolescents
Adolescence is a stage of transition that is marked by a number of developmental, biological, behavioural, social and academic challenges. During this stage, adolescents experience significant changes in their physical, cognitive and social domain functioning (Tanti, Stukas, Halloran, & Foddy, 2010). Studies of changes in behaviour, attitudes and values throughout adolescence have revealed not only that these changes are more rapid in the early than in the latter part of adolescence, but also that the behaviour, attitudes and values in the early part of the period are markedly different from those in the latter part (Hurlock, 1953). This transitional stage of development depends on various factors in which parenting style plays a key role in development (Baumrind, 1991). As the adolescence is a transitional stage, problems are present at a higher rate and thus resilience also plays a major role in this developmental stage.
Parenting styles
The concept parenting style is viewed as a characteristic of a parent that changes the effectiveness of family socialisation practices and children's receptiveness to such practices (Darling & Steinberg, 1993). Parenting is a complex activity that includes a large number of specific behaviours that work individually and together to influence child outcomes (Baumrind, 1991). The quality of parenting can be more essential than...