Relationship between Aggressive Behaviour and Parenting Style

Abstract

The present study investigated on how the aggressive behaviour is related to parenting style. The study was conducted on 400 adolescents of Ludhiana district of Punjab state. Buss-Durkee aggression scale, Hindi adaptation by Sultania was used for the assessment of aggressive behaviour of respondents. Parenting scale by Bhardwaj, Sharma and Garg (1998) was used to study parenting style used by parents. Results revealed that boys and girls are equally aggressive but they aggress in different ways. Correlation analysis showed that expression of indirect aggression is negatively and significantly related to acceptance and marital adjustment and positively and significantly related with protection. Irritative behaviour is positively and significantly related with parent’s protection. Negative feeling is positively and significantly related to parents’ protection, indulgence and realism. Resentment behaviour of adolescents is negatively and significantly related to acceptance and realistic role expectation. Suspicion showed positive and significant relation with protection and discipline. Expression of verbal aggression had positive and significant relation with protecting style and negative and significant relation with realism, moralism, realistic role expectation and marital adjustment. Guilt feeling is found to have negative and significant relation with acceptance of parents. Aggression of adolescents had positive and significant association with protection and negative and significant relation with acceptance and marital adjustment.