Correlation between Parenting Styles and Emotional Intelligence among Adolescents

Abstract

A correlational study to assess the parenting styles and emotional intelligence among adolescents in selected colleges, Thrissur. The objectives of the study were to identify the parenting styles among adolescents, assess the level of emotional intelligence among adolescents, correlate parenting styles and emotional intelligence among adolescents, associate the parenting styles among adolescents with their selected demographic variables and associate the emotional intelligence with their selected demographic variables. The conceptual framework used in this study was the Health Promotion Model proposed by Nola J Pender. Simple random sampling (Lottery methods) technique was used to select the samples. A non-experimental descriptive design was adopted to assess the parenting styles and emotional intelligence among 100 adolescents. The tool consisted of a structured questionnaire to assess the demographic variables of adolescents that include age, gender, occupation of parents, education of parents, siblings, birth order, monthly income of the family, and spiritual activity. Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) was used to assess the parenting styles and the emotional intelligence inventory was used to assess the emotional intelligence. The pilot study was done for 10 subjects and the tool found to be feasible for the study. The main study was conducted from 10th February to 9th March 2020. The study findings revealed that the maternal parenting styles includes 57% of adolescents had affectionate parenting style, 22% had optimal parenting style, 20% had affectionless parenting style and only 1% had neglectful parenting style with mean score of 45.6 while consider the paternal parenting styles 53% of adolescents had affectionate parenting style, 23% had affectionless control parenting style, 21% had optimal parenting style and only 3% had neglectful parenting style with mean score of 43.29. Whereas the emotional intelligence of adolescents, 33% of adolescents had middle level of emotional intelligence, 25% had high and very high level of emotional intelligence, 16% had low level of emotional intelligence and only 1% had very low level of emotional intelligence. There was negative correlation between maternal and paternal parenting styles and the value was -0.069. Also, p-value was 0.497 which was greater than 0.05 (p value > 0.05). There was no statistically significant relationship between parenting styles and the emotional intelligence of adolescents. There was an association between maternal parenting styles and age of adolescents where the p value was0.048. There was no association between Paternal parenting styles and selected demographic variables. No association could be found between emotional intelligence and selected demographic variables.