Ayesha Asghar2016-04-212016-04-212015https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1854Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sadia SaleemThe 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.MS ThesisPerceived parental rearing practicesInterpersonal difficultiesMental health problemsCollege studentsThesis