The relationship between parenting style and adolescent self-esteem in a secondary school

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to assess the relationships between parenting styles and students’ self-esteem in secondary school. The researcher selected 54 participants out of 274 students through a simple random sampling technique. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire and we used the Pearson product-moment correlation and t-test to test the relationship between parenting style and adolescent self-esteem. Qualitative data were organised based on descriptions, narrations and interpretations from the research questions, and triangulation was made to balance the data systematically by using document analysis. The result revealed that there is a positive, negative and weak relationship between parenting styles and students’ self-esteem. The result reveals that there is significant statistical difference between boys and girls in their self-esteem. The result revealed that there are various factors that contribute to adolescent self-esteem differences, such as family background, socialisation and interaction between a child and their parents.

Keywords: Relationship, parenting style, adolescent, self-esteem, students;