A Study of Parenting Style in Relation to Emotional Intelligence Value Orientation and Social Adjustment among Secondary School Students of Delhi

Abstract

The Indian family plays a key role in the socialization process of the child (from newlineinfancy to childhood and even to the extent of adulthood) and uses family specific newlinevalues to bring up the child. Children who are the carriers of the value certainly have an newlineimportant role in the family system. Children learn the culture and values within the newlinebosom of a family. It means the children raised by certain specific set of culture are newlinereflection of familial and cultural values. Therefore, socially learned norms and values newlineoffer standards which parents usually use to direct their own interaction with their newlinechildren. As, this interaction or process of socialization process is bidirectional in newlinenature, therefore, parents conveys the socialization messages to their children, but their newlinechildren vary in their level of acceptance, receptivity, and internalization of these newlinemessages. Processes of socialization of child generally do depend upon the beliefs, newlinevalues, goals held by the parents who are generally are passed from one generation to newlinethe next. Philosophers and developmental psychologists are always interested in newlineunderstanding and unravelling the intricacies of socialization process by which parents newlineattempt to transmit their values, goals, skills, and attitudes to their children. newlineBehaviourist and Freudian theory tried to explain in their own way about the process of newlinesocialization. But it was in the late sixties, Baumrind work on children which resulted newlineinto a paradigm shift in looking after the socialization process of children. She gave newlinethree parenting typologies: authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. These three newlineparenting styles differ in behaviours, values, and standards which parents expect their newlinechildren to adopt. The three parenting styles have different consequences on children newlinecognitive and social competence development.Baumrind suggested that authoritative newlineparents are warm and responsive, providing their children with affection and support in newlinetheir explorations and pursuit of interests...