Stress and Strain in a Parent-Adolescent Relationship
Keywords:
Stress and Strain, Parent-Adolescent Relationship, parenting skillsAbstract
As part of developing a parenting skills training programme in view of strengthening the parent-adolescent relationship, 60 couples were selected on a random basis from a Bangalore city based school during one of their Parent-Teacher Association meetings. The 60 couples were interviewed separately, 5 hypothetical situations which were reported by parents as the difficult situations to manage adolescents were given to them for their report on managing in their own ways. The results showed that about 31% to 42% of parents used unhealthy ways of handling such situations and mothers were found to be significantly using healthier ways of managing such situations than fathers.
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