Relationship between Aggression and Parenting Styles

Relationship between Aggression and Parenting Styles5.1IntroductionThis chapter entangles the summary of the news report, the habit derived from the study. The implication of the study and the limitations are also discussed in this chapter followed by the future research suggestions.5.2Summary The purpose of the study was to the level of aggression, between adolescents with different styles of perceived parenting style of their drives.The stress included101 adolescent girls and boys, belonging to the term group of 14 to 16 years coming from various schools of Pune city. The render included boys and girls from substance separate population who were English speaking.The adolescents included in the sample had working fathers and homemaker m otherwises. The adolescents were categorized into trio groups establish on their perceived parenting styles of their father.The tools employ in the study were Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss Perry, 1992) to measure Aggress ion among adolescents and the enatic Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991) was used to assess the perceived parenting style.The research design used was non-equivalent multi group post-test design.The sampling regularity used for this study was Random sampling. Permission was acquired from the various schools selected to participate in the study. After the permission was granted, the drive sample (adolescent students) was requested to participate in the study. The questionnaires were handed over to the students and instructions were given.The independent variables parenting style had three levels namely bailable, Authoritarian and coercive. These levels were made into three groups. The mean score on each group was cypher as well as the exemplification deviation. All give the sackdidates whose score lay above the one standard deviation up score were included in the group. Thus the three groups were formed.Since there were three levels of the independent variable giving three mean scores the statistical analysis used for the study was ANOVA. base on literature review the following hypotheses were formulated.Aggression will be meaning(a)ly higher among adolescents who save Authoritarian fathers than adolescents who have Authoritative fathers.Aggression will be signifi nookietly higher among adolescents who have Permissive fathers than authoritative fathers.Aggression will be significantly higher among adolescents who have Authoritarian fathers than Permissive fathers. inductionThere was a significant difference in the aggression scores between adolescents who perceived their fathers to be Authoritarian and adolescents who perceived their father to be Authoritative. Thus concluding that, adolescents who perceive their father to be Authoritative are less Aggressive in comparison to adolescents who perceive their father to be Authoritarian.No significant difference was found between the aggression scores of adolescents who perceived their father to be Perm issive and Authoritative. Similarly, no significant differences were found between adolescents who perceived their fathers to be Permissive and Authoritarian.5.4ImplicationIt was concluded by the study that, adolescents who perceived their fathers to be Authoritarian were more scrappy in comparison to the other two groups. The findings can be used to Psycho educate parents about the effect of Authoritarian parenting which may help preventing aggressive behaviours among adolescents. The same could be ex slanted to a school setting too, where teachers are also made awake(predicate) of the consequences of Authoritative interaction with their students.Also as the time spent by the adolescent with the father has been speak about as a element influencing aggression. These findings could be used to educate parents about the adequate beat of time that is required to be actively spent with their adolescent.This finding can also be used in future researches by comparing variables such as academic performance with perceived parenting styles. unless research could also include comparing mothers parenting style and aggression.5.5LimitationThe sample did not include equal number of girls and boys which may have affected the results of the study. A common observation around the universe is that males are more aggressive than females (Perry,Perry Weiss, 1989), as aggression is influenced by the male sex hormone testosterone (Dabbs, 1998). consequently it could have been beneficial to include equal number of boys and girls to control grammatical gender differences.The sample included exactly middle class population. Not including the other accessible strata in the sample does not allow the sample to be a true representative of Pune city. Hence, the use of only Middle class sample would be counted as a limitation of this study.It was observed that a few responses of a few candidates were influenced by social desirability. This resulted in discarding of such respons e sheets thus affecting the sample size.The sample size was only two hundred out of which only 101 could be included into the three groups made. This constitutes a very small percent of the total population of Pune city and hence the results cannot be world(a)ized.Most of the literature review caters to the Western and European sample, whereas the sample included in this study belongs to the Indian population. In cultures such as African-American and Asian-American, adolescents tend to have less negative effects such as deviant aggressive behaviours as compared to other ethnic groups (Steinberg, 2001). Since there are culture differences found in aggression, culture may have play an essential role in influencing Aggression which may be counted as a limitation.5.6Suggestions The study had a number of drawbacksthat could be avoided in the future studies. To begin with, the limitations mentioned above could be looked into. Correcting the limitations of this study would represent the universe better and hence yield more apt results in turn.The most important suggestion would be to increase size of the sample. Since the present study consisted only of 101individuals, there is a possibility that the sample wasnt represented best. With a larger sample the results may have been more accurate as the general population would be represented in a better manner.In future research it can be ensured that there is equal representation of each gender, as doing so would eliminate the effect of gender differences on the variable aggression.For future research it can be kept in mind that the sample may have equal number individuals from each socioeconomic class and not just middle class as done in this study. A sample that is inclusive of individuals from all classes would be a well represented sample and therefore the results may be generalized to the entire city universe studied.Another suggestion for future studies done would be to add the variables that were not included in this study, such as number of hours the father spends with his adolescent. As it has been discussed earlier that number of hours the father spends with the adolescent is an important factor known to have an influence on the adolescents aggressive behaviours. Hence, controlling the number of hours the father spends with his adolescent could help avoid this factor to have an influence on the variable aggression.