Parental styles and their relationship to psychological adjustment among preparatory students

Abstract

The current study aims to assess the patterns of parental style among adolescent students and assess the level of psychological adjustment among adolescent students to find out the significant relationship between parental style and psychological adjustment among adolescent students. A descriptive correlational design has been used in the present study using a simple random sample to select (381) students by using the self-report to select the students who will be recruited into the study. The result of the present study was showed that there are significant negative relationships between punitive and love withdrawal parental style, and psychological adjustment, in contrast, there is a positive relationship between indicative parental style and psychological adjustment among secondary and preparatory school students. We found also that more than half of the sample (52%) with moderate psychological adjustment and (45%) with good psychological adjustment, addition to (3%) with poor psychological adjustment.