Parenting Style and Its Impact on Submissive Behaviour among Adolescents

Abstract

Parenting plays a vital role in adolescent’s behaviour in moulding their cognition and reducing social phobia. The main objective of this study is to explore the impact of parenting style on the submissive behaviour among adolescents. The battery of tests was applied to a group of children aged between 13 and 18 year (N=60 boys and N= 60 girls). A total of 120 school going students were selected from various schools. Allan and Gilbert scale  was used to assess the submissive behaviour. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was adopted. Research revealed that parenting style has significant impact on submissive behaviour of school going adolescents. The results showed that authoritarian parenting style has significant by positive correlation with submissive behaviour and parenting style has significant by negative correlation with submissive behaviour. There is a significant differences between boys and girls on measures of submissive behaviour.