Dharmeshwari Lourembam and Koj Rinyo
Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
Pages 101-111
The developmental outcome of an individual is closely related to their childhood
experiences. A child’s experience with their parents, and the style of parenting employed,
plays a poignant role in the overall development of an individual. Apatani tribal community
resides in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India, it is a less explored
community in terms of parenting practices. The study thus aims to investigate the
prevalent parenting style, and relationship between parenting style and adolescents’
self-concept. Data was collected from 363 Apatani adolescents of Arunachal Pradesh,
India, ages 11-18 years, using the Parental Authority Questionnaire and Adolescents’
Self-concept Short Scale. Authoritative Parenting style emerged as the most prevalent
type of parenting style for both mother and father. Correlation analysis revealed that the
permissive parenting style and the authoritative parenting style has a significant positive
correlation with adolescent’s self-concept. However, in the case of the present study
participants, a negative correlation was found between the authoritarian parenting style
and self-concept of adolescents. Regression analysis showed that authoritative parenting
of mothers is a predictor of adolescent self-concept, followed by permissive parenting
of fathers demonstrating the crucial role of parenting styles in determining the level of
adolescent self-concept.