THE EFFECT OF PERCEIVED MATERNAL PARENTING STYLE ON AGGRESSION AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG STUDENTS IN GILGIT

Abstract

The present study examines the impact of permissive parenting style, authoritarian parenting style, and authoritative parenting style on aggression and emotional intelligence among college and university students of Gilgit Pakistan. The participant of the study consists of (n=222) students of both genders within the age range of 15 to 30 years. They were assessed by using three different tools namely parental authority questionnaire (Buri,1992), aggression questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1991) and emotional intelligence test (Sharma, 2004).Every scale is administrate with their subscales Parenting (permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian), aggression subscales (physical and verbal) And emotional intelligence subscales (self-awareness, social skill, empathy, manage emotions, and self-management),to understand relationship between these variables data were analyses software SPSS. The results indicated that there are significant relations between perceived parenting, aggression and emotional intelligence.