Impact of Authoritative Parenting Style on Self-Esteem among Pr…

between authoritative parenting style and self-esteem among primary school students. It was also

hypothesized that authoritative parenting style positively predicts Self-esteem among primary

school students. The sample comprised of 259 students, including 198 boys and 61 girls. These

were recruited through convenient sampling technique from Shabqadar, district Charsadda, K.P.



and 5th classes. For data collection two scales were used. Rosenberg self-esteem scale Urdu

version for measuring self-esteem of students, which was originally constructed by Rosenberg in

1965 and translated by Sammer in 2016 with 0.77 internal consistencies and test retest reliability,

is 0.85. The second scale was Parental Authority Questionnaire. That was originally constructed

by Bur     -

retest reliability is .78. Pearson correlation result indicated significant and positive correlation

was obtained between maternal and paternal parenting style and self-

       -     

concluded that authoritative parenting style fosters self-esteem of students at primary level.

Keywords: Authoritative parenting style, Paternal, Maternal, Self-esteem.

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Citation: Adnan Hussain, Dr. Shazia Khalid, Saba Zer Naz, Muhammad Meikail, Ahmad Ullah, Andleeb Impact of

Authoritative Parenting Style on Self-Esteem among Primary School Students,  of Science, Computing and Engineering

Research, 1(2), 25-30, May-June 2020.

I. INTRODUCTION

  

 A website

My Etymology Published an article in 2008 and elaborated

that, Pa

   

       

their children happy and confident but personality of these

parents make them vulnerable to a specific parenting style.

Parenting style is an emotional circumstance, in which

parents foster their children and characterize by all aspects

of parental responsibilities and demanding (Darling &

Steinberg, 1993). Preschool children raised by their parents

of different parenting styles, which are varied in their degree

of social competence [2]. Parents affect child out comes

which in turn effect quality of citizens, so parenting style is

very important [4]. Inadequate parenting style is often

responsible for youth crimes, truancy etc. [6]. Family

background plays a great role in determining the life of a

person [7]. Parenting style is a Psychological construct that

represents standard strategies that parents use in the rearing

of their children [6] Authoritative parenting is a strategy to

seek reasonable rules and guidelines that are in the best

i  . These parents are accessible and

approachable parents. They give freedom to their children,

to little bit extent. These parents are warm, supportive

and considerate. Authoritative parenting style is responsible

for high self-esteem as compared to other parenting styles.

Authoritative parents are more likely to buildup self-esteem

in their children. Researchers find out that self-esteem can

be improved and foster by authoritative parenting style.

Present study aims to investigate the impacts of authoritative

parenting style on self-esteem among primary school

students on the basis of literature review. Self-esteem may

     negative or positive attitude

towards him or herself defined self-esteem as an overall

positive self-evaluation. Self-Esteem can be developed and

changes through a person beliefs and knowledge of their

thinking, actions and feelings [11]. Self-esteem is the basic

human motivation and it comes on the top in the hierarchy

of needs [11] and suggested the relationship between self-

esteem and parenting style. According to them, authoritative

parenting style links with high self-esteem, whereas