Perceived Parenting Styles, Aggression Coping Style Among Adolescence

Abstract

Parenting styles, aggression, and coping mechanisms have been key focal points in both mental health discourse and academic research for a significant period. Parenting styles, classified into four types—authoritative, authoritarian, neglectful, and permissive—significantly influence various aspects of child development, including emotional regulation and aggression. Understanding these styles provides crucial insights into how parental behavior shapes adolescent behavior and mental health outcomes. This study focuses on adolescents’ perceptions of their parents’ parenting styles and their subsequent impact on emotional regulation abilities and levels of aggression. Using standardized questionnaires, participants assessed their perceptions of their parents’ parenting approaches, their own emotional regulation capabilities, and their tendencies toward aggression. The present work draws on an extensive literature review to examine the relationships among these variables, highlighting key findings from previous research. The statistical procedures include – t-test and correlation to statistically analyze the parenting style, aggression and coping style. The sample includes 61 adolescence aged 12-18 years. The result portray that parenting style and aggression are correlated, t-test of parenting style with gender is not significant and t-test of aggression with gender is not significant. This study will become a key source of understanding the importance of parenting style, aggression and coping mechanism.