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Parenting Styles and Self-Efficacy of Adolescents: Malaysian Scenario

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Parenting styles and its impact on adolescents' psychosocial development has been an area of interest in the field of psychology. Previous studies have revealed that parenting styles are correlated with adolescents' self-esteem, drug and alcohol use, delinquency and academic performance. This study aimed to investigate the effect of parenting styles namely authoritative, authoritarian and permissive on adolescents' self-efficacy level. A hundred and twenty students served as participants for this study. The mean age for the entire sample was 18.441 and had an equal number of males and females. A single survey was administered and data on perceived parenting styles and ratings on self-efficacy were collected. Correlation was carried out and results indicated that authoritative parenting style is highly associated with self-efficacy. Regression result showed that authoritative parenting style contributes 12.8% towards student's self-efficacy. However, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles do not produce any significant relationship when associated with self-efficacy.

Source: Global Journal of Human-Social Science

Authors: Cai Lian Tam, Amanda Chong, Amudha Kadirvelu, Yoon-Ting Khoo

Institution: Sunway University

Language: English

Topic: Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W1604727472

FWCI: 0.992

Cites: 32

Cited by: 43

Related to: 10