Impact of Parenting Style among School Going Children

Abstract

Background: – Parenting is considered to be a combination of biological and social process. Parenting style is one of the exogenous factors, participating both in the etiology of psychopathology and in the healthy development of a child. Researchers are super interested in four main parenting styles that they’ve been digging into: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive (liberal) loving and permissive uninvolved style Aim: This study aims to investigate and explore about Impact of parenting style among school going children. Methods: For this, literature has been looked for manually as well as through electronic resources like PubMed, Google Scholar. JSTOR, and ResearchGate. Conclusion: Parenting style affects children’s psychosocial development positively as well as negatively. The findings of this review articles concerned about parenting methods which may minimize the risk of psychopathology and behavioural issues in children as well as adolescence. Authoritative style, consisting in high control combined with expression of emotional warmth, seems to be the most advantageous for the child’s development.