Perceived Parenting Style, Ego Resilience and Optimism among Young Adults

Abstract

The aim of the study was to find the relationship between perceived parenting style, ego resilience and optimism among young adults and also to identify the influence of perceived parenting style on ego resilience and optimism. The study also determines if there is any gender difference in Perceived parenting style, ego resilience and optimism. A descriptive study was carried out and the data was drawn from an online survey of 228 young adults. The perceived parenting style (Divya & Manikandan, 2013), Ego Resiliency scale (Block & Kremen, 1996) and Life Orientation test revised (LOT-R) (Scheier, Carver & Bridges, 1994) were utilized to gather the data. Correlation was employed to find the relationship between the variables. Linear regression was used to identify the influence of perceived parenting style on ego resilience and optimism. Mann- Whitney U test was used to find the significant gender difference among the variables. The findings indicated that there is significant positive correlation between ego resilience and optimism. There is a significant negative relationship between permissive and authoritarian parenting style and ego resilience. There is no significant relationship between ego resilience and optimism. Permissive parenting style has a negative influence and authoritative parenting style has a positive influence on ego resilience and optimism. There was a significant gender difference in permissive parenting style and ego resilience.