Impact of Parenting Style on the Self Esteem of Adolescence

Abstract

The aim to conduct this research was to enlighten the impact of parenting style on an adolescent individual’s self-esteem and to examine whether there is a gender difference in this case or not. There are a total of 160 numbers of participants, with equal number of males and females in the sample set. The tool that’d be using here is a modified short version of the Parental Authority Questionnaire (1991) developed by Buri, J. R. and The Rosenberg self-esteem scale by Morris Rosenberg (RSES)in the year 1965. The current research proved a significant gender difference in self-esteem of participants and whenever there will be higher permissive parental style, it will result in high self-esteem of adolescents, and high authoritative parental style will result in low self-esteem of the same.