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Volume 9
Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Public Health Congress 2019
May 15-16, 2019
May 15-16, 2019 Singapore
7
th
World Congress on
Public Health, Nutrition & Epidemiology
J Community Med Health Educ 2019, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C3-060
Perception of parenting style and association with self-esteem and life satisfaction of adolescents
studying in grade 9 and 10 in schools in Panadura, Sri Lanka
Dilini Mataraarachchi
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Sri Lanka
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emandingness and responsiveness of the parent are the two categories of parenting styles. The impact of parent-adolescent
relationship on psychosocial well-being of the adolescent is not optimally explored.This study was carried out to determine
the impact of maternal and paternal parenting style on self-esteem and life satisfaction of the adolescents. A cross-sectional,
descriptive study was carried out among 439 adolescents through cluster sampling in grades 9 and 10 in four public schools in
Panadura education division in Sri Lanka. A self-administered questionnaire consisting of socio-demographic details, questions
extracted from parent authority questionnaire, Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale and life satisfaction scale was used to collect data.
Paternal parenting style was significantly associated with self-esteem (p=0.002) and life satisfaction (p=0.002) of adolescents
while the relationship was less defined for maternal parenting style. Unlike in western societies authoritative mothering or
authoritative fathering was not significantly associated with adolescent self-esteem and life satisfaction in the study setting. At
p=0.05 significance level different combination of parenting styles was not significantly associated with adolescent self-esteem
and whereas its relationship with the life-satisfaction of adolescents was significant.
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