Parenting Style and the aggression among their children

The present endeavour aims at to explore the Parenting as it experienced by their children in relation to the aggression as observed by their parents in terms of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. Correlation design followed by the t-test were applied using the standardized tools to observe the participants responses on the parenting styles and the aggression. Result revealed the significant positive and negative correlation of positive and negative parenting with the lower and higher aggression among their children respectively concluded that positive the parenting, lower the aggression, negative the parenting higher the aggression among their children. Adolescence is facing multitude of problems throughout the world. Adolescents are suffering from different maladjustment problems at one time or the other during their development. The major problems that usually involved with these age groups are substance abuse and some internalizing problems like depression, anxiety, and externalizing problems like aggression, delinquency and educational difficulties are common among children. In the present days, children are not developed emotionally, it is seen that homes where tension is continuous, this type of home environment damage the children’s emotional development. Aggressive behavior among children also extended because of poor parenting and poor family relationships (Haggai and Mallum, 2000). Nik Rosila et al., (2010) also found that early bonding between parent-child is very essential. Parents who do not understand their responsibility and value of parenting towards their children, causes more social problems among them. Early education of children starts from family and it shaped their personality. The development of aggressive behavior among children starts from lacking of attention. Elizabeth . et al. (2012) revealed that physically aggressive parenting is highly linked to aggressive behavior of their children. Each moment of a child’s life that he spends in contact with his parents predicts his potentialities for the future. This process of child rearing is generally influenced by the characteristic’s ways of thinking, feeling and acting, prevalent in the cultural group to which the family belongs. Sears et al. (1957) found that mothers who were anxious about how successful they were in child rearing tended to have more aggressive children than mothers who did not worry unduly about the job they © 2018 JETIR February 2018, Volume 5, Issue 2 www.jetir. org (ISSN-2349-5162) JETIR1802280 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir. org 1395 were doing. The child’s aggression level can be affected by the parent’s sensing the needs of their infants. Some parents are able to quickly notice their child’s moods and periods of distress, i.e., synchrony, and parents comfort their child’s need. Cole and Rehm (1986) showed that low level of parental praise has been associated with the internalize problems of their children like social withdrawal and anxiety. Whereas on the other hand, parental warmth, involvement, and communication increases the conflict resolution skills and skills to manage interpersonal relationships (Kochanska, 1993; Pettit et al. 1997). The family is both the earliest and most sustained source of social contact for the child. In the early years the sole relationships available to the child may be those with parents. The interaction and emotional relationship between infants and parents will shape the child’s expectancies and responses in subsequent social relations. Bandura (1973) investigated that the behavior of the parent determines or molds the behavior of the child. Children play an active role in their own socialization; children interpret and respond to the behavior of others in a unique fashion on the basis of their ability’s temperament, personality, and past experience (Bell and Harper, 1977). Loeber et al. (1998); Patterson (1982) exposed that conflited parent-child interaction causes different types of behavioral problems in early childhood. Behavioral problems of the children also depend on the exposure to harsh parenting and aggressive parenting practices. Connor et al. (2002); Sim and Ong (2005) revealed that unhealthy parent-child interactions in the form of abuse and punishment are related to the aggressive behavior of the children. Booth et al. (1994) suggested that the early experiences of parental warmth are associated with the positive outcomes in the later childhood, whereas lack of parental warmth is associated with the child aggression and other behavioral problems. ElSheikh and Elmore-Staton (2004) described that parent-child hostility, parent-child conflict are also the factors which increases the aggression. Therefore, the present study was designed to see the difference between children experiencing positive and negative parenting with respect to their aggression, with the following objectives. Objectives of the Study: 1. To study the relationship of parenting style i.e. positive and negative parenting with the aggression among their children, in terms of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility. © 2018 JETIR February 2018, Volume 5, Issue 2 www.jetir. org (ISSN-2349-5162) JETIR1802280 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir. org 1396 2. To see the difference between the children on their aggression in terms oof their positive and negative parenting style. Design of the Study: In the present study correlation design was used to examine the relationship of positive parenting and negative parenting with aggression among their children. Further, t-test was applied to see the difference between children experiencing positive parenting and negative parenting with respect to their aggression in terms of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility.