The Relationship Between Perceived Parenting Style and Resilience in College Students

Abstract

Parenting is considered a complex activity; it includes many behaviours of parents towards their child which either individually or together affect child outcomes. From very long-time parenting is seen as one of the factors that shapes a child’s psychological and physiological wellbeing. In this research the relationship between perceived parenting style and a college students’ resilience which can be understood as it as an individual’s capacity to cope up in an effective way with the internal and external stresses is examined. A sample of 101 college students are collected from various colleges to further generalize the research. The sample chosen includes young adults who are going to college, ranging from age group of 18 to 25 years. A significant relationship between parenting style and resilience was revealed, there will be significant relationship between resilience and authoritative parenting style of mother and father, in case of authoritarian parenting style no correlation was revealed.