A Study of Adolescent Stress and Parenting

Abstract

The study deals with the relationship between adolescent stress and perception of parenting. The present study consists of 400 students (200 male and 200 female) from higher secondary school both govt. and private from C.G. India. Respondents were selected by using random sampling method. Parenting scale was use to assess parenting comprises of 1)Rejection Vs Acceptance 2)Carelessness Vs Protection 3)Neglect Vs Indulgence 4)Utopian expectation Vs Realism 5) Lenient standard Vs moralism 6) Freedom Vs discipline 7) Faulty role expectation Vs realistic role expectation 8)Marital conflict Vs marital adjustment dimension and total stress was used. To assess the stress adolescent stress Questionnaire (ASQ) originally developed by Byrne, Byrne Reinhart, (1995) Byrne and Mazanov, (2002) and translated in Hindi by the researcher was used. The parenting style scale developed by Bharadwaj, Sharma, Garg(1995) consisted of 40 items was used to asses parenting style. The Pearson product moment correlation was computed to find out relationship between stress and parenting. The correlation coefficient was found negatively significant between stress and parenting for Carelessness Vs protection, Neglect Vs Indulgence, Freedom Vs Discipline and Marital conflict Vs Marital adjustment. It indicated that the high adolescent stress is related with parenting dominated with carelessness, neglect, freedom and marital conflict as perceived by the adolescent student. It is concluded that adolescents feel high level of stress when they experience carelessness, neglect, freedom and marital parenting scale comprising of dimensions.