Abstract
This research project was designed to investigate the impact of parenting styles on adolescents’ behavioral problems in secondary schools in Mbooni East Sub- district, Makueni County, Kenya. It aimed to establish how parenting styles impacts on adolescents’ behavior. The independent variable was parenting style while adolescents’ behavioral problem was the dependent variable. The target population was all public secondary schools in Mbooni east sub-district ‘Makueni County, Kenya. The study randomly selected eight secondary schools out of the forty- two secondary schools in Mbooni East-sub district. Thirty students were sampled from each school to make a total of two hundred and forty students from form one to\form three. Data was collected and analyzed using SPSS. According to the study findings 66.7% of the respondents under the authoritarian parenting style, 66.7% of the respondents’ under neglecting parenting style exhibited negative social behavior, while 51% of the respondents under permissive parenting style exhibited negative social behavior and only 39% of the authoritative parenting style exhibited negative social behavior. The major recommendation was that authoritative parenting style is a tool for curbing negative social behaviors among schooling adolescents as opposed to the other parenting style. Keywords : An Adolescent, Authoritative parenting style, Authoritarian parenting style, permissive, and uninvolved parenting. DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-2-03
Highlights
Parents play a pivotal role in acting as social control and attachment models for their adolescents by providing emotional connection, behavioral constrains and modeling of relationships according to Kincaid (2012)
This study was set to find out the impact that exists between parenting styles and behavioral problems among adolescents, since many cases of behavioral problems had been reported among students
The study was guided by the following objectives. i To establish the parenting styles in Mbooni East district. ii To establish the relationship of uninvolved parenting, authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting and authoritative parenting style and adolescents social behavior
Summary
Parents play a pivotal role in acting as social control and attachment models for their adolescents by providing emotional connection, behavioral constrains and modeling of relationships according to Kincaid (2012). According to Azmiri (2012) these include aggression, truancy, irresponsibility, immorality, alcoholism, vandalism, lies, examination malpractice, sleeping in class, walking out of the teacher, and use of drugs, occultism and others These behaviors are often established in early childhood and may continue in and intensify through the adolescent period. An article in the (Daily Nation, 2010, January 10th ) on what teenagers wished from their parents’ argued that most adolescents wished their parents spent more time at home, teaching them basic skills like washing, cooking, etc Teenagers criticized their parents for turning schools into dumping grounds and leaving the monitory role of their children to teachers. Ii To establish the relationship of uninvolved parenting, authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting and authoritative parenting style and adolescents social behavior. Authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved parenting styles relate with adolescents behavior?
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