The Impact of Parental Acceptance and Rejection on Mental Health among Young Adults

Abstract

The present study aimed to explore the effect of parental acceptance and rejection on mental Health of young adults. Purposive sampling techniques was ensued to elect 225 (115 male & 110 female) young adults from Rajshahi city as a sample of the study. Bangla version of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire and Bangla version of Global Mental Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) were employed to assess parental acceptance and rejection, mental health of the participants. After collecting data, the data was scored and analyzed by employing Mean, Standard deviation, Percentage, Pearson’s product moment correlation, Regression Analysis through SPSS version 26. Result in this study showed that most of the participants were accepted by their parent than rejection in childhood and findings also revealed that there is significant positive correlation between parental acceptance-rejection and Mental health of respondents.