Parenting Styles and Development of Social Skills During Adolescence

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Janaína T. B.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Teixeira, Marco A. P., Gomes, William B.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17387
• topic: Estilos parentais; Habilidade social; Adolescência; Parenting styles; Social skill; Adolescence

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and development of socialskills during adolescence. A total of 193 high school students (ages 14-17) from two public schools in Porto Alegre answereda questionnaire to evaluate perception of performance in ten social skills, as well as, two scales (Responsiveness andDemandingness) allowing to classify parental attitudes in four types: authoritarian, authoritative, indulgent and negligent.Generally, the results indicate that the adolescents have the necessary social skills for the investigated situations. The skills forwhich they presented more difficulties were the following: beginning interpersonal relationship; asking for change on someoneelse's behavior and expressing feelings. Significant differences on the presence of social skills among the adolescents whoidentified their parents according to different parenting styles were not found. However, significant differences on variablesrelated to social skills, as anxiety and aggressiveness, were noticed among these groups.