Perceived Parenting Style and It’s Relationship to Locus of Control and Emotional Maturity Among Emerging Adults

Abstract

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” –Carl Jung Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was best known for his theories about personalities but raising five children may have been his proudest achievement. Jung knew you can’t simply tell your kids what to do—you must lead by example. Parenting, the process of raising children and providing them with protection and care in order to ensure their healthy development into adulthood, whereas perceived parenting style is how adolescents perceive their parent’s parenting styles- which are based on three types of parenting styles such as authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. A study on perceived parenting style and its relationship with locus of control and emotional maturity was conducted among emerging adults in the state of goa by college students. A total of 150 emerging adults answered the self-report questionnaire. The results showed that, the was a significant correlation between the 3 variables i.e., perceived parenting styles, emotional maturity and locus of control.