ROLE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

Parents play a vital role in adolescent development, offering support and encouragement and promoting crucial skills. This paper examined the correlation between parental involvement, emotional regulation and social competence among adolescents, using cross-sectional correlational design. The participants comprised 200 students (100 males and 100 females) from different universities specifically International Islamic University, Riphah International University and Quaid-I-Azam University and the sampling technique used was convenience sampling. The latest versions of the parental involvement rating scale, emotion regulation questionnaire, and youth social competence scale were used. Parental involvement and emotional regulation had a moderately positive correlation with cognitive reappraisal; the result was statistically significant. Moreover, the analysis revealed a negative correlation between youth social competence and emotional regulation (expressive suppression) to mean that higher levels of expressive suppression are weakly linked to lower levels of social competence. According to the results of this study, parental involvement affects the adolescents’ emotional self-regulation and social competence.