parenting styles
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Date
2021
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
The research was conducted to see the relationship of Parenting Styles, family
communication on Psychopathic tendencies in youth. For conduction of the study data
was collected from college and university Students, making the sample size of (131).
Online data was gathered using Revised Parental Authoritative Questionnaire
(Alkharusi et al., 2011), Family communication Pattern (Koerner et al., 2017), and
Levenson’s self-report psychopathy scale (Levenson, 1995). Parental Authoritative
Questionnaire deals with three types of parenting Authoritative, Authoritarian and
permissive, Family communication pattern items dealt with conversation and
conformity among the family while the Levensons self-report psychopathy scale deals
with primary and secondary psychopathy as well. The results showed that there was a
significant negative relationship between authoritative parenting and psychopathic
tendencies and its subscales. Significant positive relationship between authoritarian
parenting style and psychopathic tendencies was found. Family communication;
conformity orientation was found to have a significant relationship with psychopathic
tendencies. There was a significant gender difference in males for psychopathic
tendencies, and females had a significant gender difference for authoritative
parenting. Parenting styles; authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting and
permissive parenting; family communication pattern are predictors of psychopathic
tendencies. The study findings can be helpful for clinicians and family therapists to
help develop more targeted treatments towards their clients