"An Analysis of Parental Behaviors by Adolescents"

Authors

  • Bino Thomas Department of Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru.
  • Parthasarathy R Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12724/ajss.18.6

Keywords:

Parenting, teenagers, parental behaviors

Abstract

As part of developing a parenting skill development programme, 60 couples were interviewed. The parents were selected randomly from a school in Bangalore city. Their 60 adolescents were interviewed using Parent Bonding Instrument (brief current) (Klimids 1992) to understand what they perceive about their parents' parental behaviors. The results show a trend that mothers being more controlling and fathers giving more freedom. The study throws light on the needs of having similar studies done with larger samples which will help in working for strengthening parent adolescent bond.

Author Biographies

Bino Thomas, Department of Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru.

Department of Social Work, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru.

Parthasarathy R, Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka.

Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka.

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Published

2011-01-01

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2011): Artha Journal of Social Sciences

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