Perceived Parenting A Correlate of Mental Health and Social Maturity among Adolescents

By : Kshipra Vora

Page No: 55-64

Abstract
Parenting style is considered to be an important determinant of several aspects of children’s outcomes and the current research aims to study perceived parenting as a correlate of mental health and social maturity among adolescents. Convenient sampling procedure was employed to obtain a total sample of 450 adolescents (225 males and 225 females) from the north and south districts of Goa, who were administered a personal data sheet, Parenting Scale by R. L. Bharadwaj, H. Sharma, and A. Garg, Mental Health Battery by A. K. Singh & Alpana Sengupta and Rao’s Social Maturity Scale by Nalini Rao. The data obtained was statistically analyzed using the product moment correlation and regression analysis to obtain the indices for the relationship between the variables. The correlation coefficients obtained were significantly positive and the regression analysis revealed the cause effect relationships as was hypothesized. The current findings validate the critical importance of perceived parenting as a correlate of mental health and social maturity among adolescents. Urgent and need based implications for adolescent well-being and psycho-social maturity are hence arrived at.

Author :
Kshipra Vora : Assistant Professor, Abbé Faria P.G. Dept of Psychology, St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa - Goa.