Parental styles and perception of parental authority: A Correlational study among adolescents

The study explores the dynamic concept of parenting and its vital role in child development, focusing on the intricacies of child-rearing behaviors and the emotional climate parents provide. It emphasizes how different parenting styles, such as authoritative and authoritarian, are closely linked to the qualities of parent-adolescent relationships, like cohesion and conflict. This research aims to assess parenting styles and adolescents' perceptions of parental authority, as well as the relationship between these perceptions and socio-demographic variables. Using a quantitative correlational approach with a sample size of 70 adolescents and their parents from Chitkara University in Rajpura, Punjab, the study employed parenting style and parental authority questionnaires. The findings revealed that most parents favored an authoritative parenting style (mean=4.29) over authoritarian (mean=2.49) and permissive (mean=2.25) styles, and adolescents perceived their parents as more authoritative (mean=37.56) than permissive (mean=32.61) and less authoritarian (mean=31.20). The study concludes that there is a positive correlation between parenting styles and the parent-adolescent relationship.