Influence of parenting on self esteem of adolescents

The paper explores the influence of fathering and mothering dimensions of parenting on self esteem of adolescents. The study also attempted to find out the differences among parenting variables with self esteem. Variables included in the study were rejection-acceptance, carelessness-protection, neglect-indulgence, utopian expectations-realism, lenient standard-moralism, freedom-discipline, faulty role expectations-realistic role expectations and marital conflict-marital adjustment in parenting models and fathering and mothering were studied separately as psychological variables and self esteem as independent variable. A sample of 115 adolescents within the age group of 15-18 years was selected using stratified random sampling technique. One way ANOVA and post hoc tests were used for analyzing the data. Results revealed that adolescents develop their self esteem more fast in acceptance mode of mothering and rejection of fathers will adversely affect adolescent's self esteem.