Relationship of Fathers’ Parenting Style with Secondary School Students’ Anti Social Behaviour

Abstract

The study at hand was aimed to find out relationship between father’s parenting style and students’ antisocial behaviour. Population of the study consisted of all students of 10thgrade enrolled in public secondary schools of the Punjab province i.e. session 2015-2016. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select the sample. Sample selected for the study comprised of 390 students (190 male and 200 female). Data were analyzed through SPSS version 20 and MS Excel 2010. Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) developed by Buri (1991) was used to measure fathers’ parenting style while students’ anti-social behaviour was measured using STAB (Sub-Types of Antisocial Behaviour). STAB was originally developed by Burt and Donnellan (2009). To measure fathers’ parenting styles and students’ antisocial behaviour, mean and standard deviation were calculated. Correlation was computed to measure relationship between above mentioned variables. Results of the study revealed that authoritarian is the most perceived while permissive is the least perceived parenting style among secondary school students. Children of authoritarian as well as permissive fathers are the most antisocial behaviour exhibitors. No significant relationship was found between fathers’ authoritative parenting style and students’ antisocial behaviour. Fathers should employ authoritative parenting style to deal with children’s antisocial behaviour.