Perceived parenting and perceived teaching styles in relation to cognitive skills and social maturity of IX graders

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived parenting and perceived teaching style in relation to cognitive skills and social maturity of IX graders. Random sampling was used to select the sample a total of 479 school students of U.T. (Chandigarh) and questionnaires of this study (Parenting Style by R. L. Bharadwaj, H. Sharma, and A. Garg (1998), Social Maturity Scale, N. Rao (2011), Perceived Teaching Styles Scale and Cognitive Competence Battery are developed by Investigator). The results showed that the high favourable perceived parenting styles with student-centred perceived teaching style scored higher mean scores of cognitive skills and Social Maturity of IX graders as compared to low favourable perceived parenting styles with teacher-centred perceived teaching style. newline