Revisiting the Role Parenting Styles on Personality Development of Adolescents: A Study of District Multan, Southern Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Parenting styles generally refer to the child care practices of parents through which parents socialize their children. Diana Baumrind described three parenting styles based on two mechanisms ‘’responsiveness and demandingness’’ of parents; these parenting styles are named as authoritarian parenting style, authoritative parenting and permissive parenting style; On the other hand, personality can be defined in terms of individual differences in thinking feeling and behaving. The objective of the study was to investigate the influence of parenting style on personality development of adolescents in district Multan. Buri’s parental authority questionnaire (PAQ)) and John & Srivastava’s Big Five inventory (BFI) were used to analyze the relationship of parental child care practices and adolescent’s personality traits. The study assessed Big-five personality traits and derived parenting styles (Authoritarian, Authoritative and Permissive) from scores underlying domains of parental responsiveness and parental demandingness. 281 respondents including males and females were selected through convenient sampling technique. Linear regression model was used to find out the produced variance due to criterion variable in dependent variable. Results from linear regression explained the relationship between parenting styles and personality traits with respect to gender of the respondents which depicted 23% variation in personality traits due to permissive parenting style, 14.5% variation in personality traits due to authoritarian parenting style and only 9% variation in personality traits due to authoritative parenting style. To conclude, authoritative parenting style is more likely to associated with Big five personality traits rather than authoritarian and permissive parenting style.