Impact of Parenting Style and Ethnicity on Mental Health among Adolescents

Abstract

The main objective of the current study was to determine how parenting style and ethnicity affected teenagers’ mental health. 160 teenagers from several Ranchi schools made up the study’s sample, which was selected using stratified random sampling techniques. Hardeo Ojha created the parenting style scale in 1991, while Jagadish and Srivastava created the mental health scale in 1983. was employed to gather data. Data from t-test, mean, and SD analyses. The findings showed that a loving parenting style improves mental health more than a rejecting one. As compared to non-tribal adolescents, tribal adolescents had worse mental health.