The Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Aggressive Behaviour Among Undergraduate Students
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between parenting styles and aggressive behaviour among undergraduate students. A total of 197 participants (124 females and 73 males), aged 17-25 years (M=20.65, SD=2.147), were selected from Enugu State University of Science and Technology using multi-stage sampling techniques involving cluster, simple random balloting, and purposive procedures. Data were collected using the Parental Care Scale (Baumrind, 1971) and the Aggressive Behaviour Scale (Orpinas, 2001). A correlational research design was adopted to investigate the interaction between the variables (Sousa et al., 2007), and data were analysed using the Pearson correlation coefficient in SPSS version 27. Findings indicated the three parenting styles-authoritarian (r=-.076), permissive (r=.040), and authoritative (r=-.111)-all at p<.05, did not show significant relationships with aggressive behaviour among undergraduate students The findings provide insight into how perceived parenting styles relate to aggressive tendencies among undergraduates.
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