Parenting Style as perceived by High School Students in Aizawl, Mizoram, India

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how high school students in Aizawl city perceive their parents' parenting styles. The study also aims to compare students’ perception of their parents’ parenting style with reference to their parents’ working status. The study revealed that most students observed that their parents demonstrate a moderate level of parenting style, whether the style is autocratic, democratic, permissive, or uninvolved. The study also revealed that students with working fathers showed a more positive perception of autocratic parenting style in comparison to students whose fathers were not working. The findings also showed that students whose mothers were working held a more favourable view of the democratic parenting style when compared with students whose mothers were not working