Relationship of Parenting Styles with Decision-Making and Self-concept among Adolescents

Abstract

Objectives. The current research aimed to examines the relationship of parenting styles withdecision-making and self-concept among adolescents (N=400).Method. The sample comprised of College students from Rawalpindi and Attock including bothgovernment and private colleges. There were 200 male and 200 female college studentsrecruited into present study. Data were collected through the Parental Authority Questionnaire(Buri, 1989), Self-Concept Questionnaire (Robson, 1989), and Melbourne Decision MakingQuestionnaire (Mann et al., 1997).Results. Self-concept has significant negative correlation with authoritarian father, authoritarianmother, permissive father, permissive mother, whereas significant positive correlation withauthoritative father and authoritative mother Decision making style is also significantly correlatedwith parenting styles. The findings revealed that gender moderates the relationship betweenauthoritarian parenting styles and hypervigilance as well as procrastination. Moreover, genderalso moderates the relationship between authoritarian parenting and self-concept.Conclusion. Study demonstrate that parenting styles play a distinctive role especiallyauthoritarian parenting style to determine the adaptive decision making and firm self-conceptamong adolescents.