Perceived parental rearing practices, interpersonal difficulties and mental health problems in college students
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2015
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UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
The current study aimed to investigate the relationship among the Perceived Parental
Rearing Practices, Interpersonal Difficulties and Mental Health Problems in College
Students. The study was carried out with the help of three scales EMBU-A (Gerlsma,
Arrindell, Veen, & Emmelkamp, 1991), Interpersonal Difficulties Scale (Saleem, Ihsan,
& Mahmood, 2014) and General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Williams, 1988). A
sample of 321 participants (54 % boys and 46% girls) from different colleges with the
age range of 15-20 (M=17.32, SD=1.00) were selected through stratified sampling.
Findings of the study showed that students who perceived more Rejection from their
parents tend to face more Interpersonal Difficulties in college life as compare to those
students who face more emotional warmth from their parents. Results also showed that
Interpersonal Difficulties such as Lack of Social Support and Lack of Unstable Relations
predict positively Mental Health problems. The findings of secondary hypotheses showed
that age gender, class, parental education has significant relation with EMBU-A. Whereas
Family system have no significant relation with EMBU-A. With interpersonal
Difficulties gender, family system and parental education have significant relation but
age and gender have no significant relationship. General Health have no significant
relation with demographics.
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sadia Saleem
Keywords
MS Thesis, Perceived parental rearing practices, Interpersonal difficulties, Mental health problems, College students