Perceived Parenting Styles and Personality Factors – A Study

Abstract

The present study is aimed to assess the relation between Perceived Parenting Style and Personality Factors among Post Graduate students. Random sampling technique was used to collect the data and the sample of the study includes 185(91 male and 94 female) post graduate students.  The data was collected through questionnaire method by using the Parenting Style Questionnaire (Gafoor&Kurukkan,2014) and Big Five Personality Factor (Mc Crae& Costa, 1991).Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson Correlation, and t-tests were used to analyze the data and found partial relationship between Perceived Parenting Style and Personality factors; no significant difference between male and female in their personality factors; and significant difference in Perceived Parenting style of Father and Mother.