Parenting Style In Amhara Region Development And Validation Of Parenting Style Scale And Investigation Of Adolescents Self-esteem Identity Style And Psychological Wellbeing (doctoral Dissertation)

The purpose of this research was to develop and validate Adolescents’ Perceived Parenting Stylern(PPSS) scale, and investigation of adolescents’ self-esteem, identity style and psychologicalrnwellbeing using two subsequent studies. The first study was designed to develop an instrumentrnfor measuring parenting style in the context of Amhara region . For this study, an exploratoryrnsequential mixed methods research design was employed to explore the types of parenting stylesrnand their indicators qualitatively, then followed by quantitative method to examine thernpsychometric properties of the scale. Samples were drawn from government general secondaryrnand preparatory school students in Amhara region using simple random sampling and stratifiedrnrandom sampling based on students’ sex and grade level as strata. For this study, bothrnqualitative and quantitative data were collected. Data for qualitative analysis were gatheredrnform adolescent informants using focus group discussion, whereas data for quantitative analysisrnwere gathered from the expert judges and school adolescents. From school adolescents, datarnwere collected twice, one for preliminary analyses such as item analysis, exploratory factorrnanalysis, and reliability analysis based on the responses of 436 participants (Male = 216;rnFemale = 220), and the other for examining confirmatory factor analysis as well as convergentrnand discriminant validity analysis using the responses of 314 participants (Male = 156; Femalern= 158) from the four zonal towns (i.e., Debre Birhan, Finot-selam, Debre Tabor, Bahir Dar) inrnthe region. The final results revealed that a 4-factor solution (Reasonable, Decent, Pamperingrn& Autocrat) with a 26-item was identified, and then confirmed with good fit indices using LInearrnStructural RELations (LISREL 8.80 version). Moreover, acceptable convergent and discriminantrnvalidity evidence were found. Thus, it would be suffice to say that APPS scale measures what itrnpurports to measure. The second study was designed to investigate the relations of parentingrnstyles with psychological wellbeing, self-esteem, and identity style. In addition, the study focusedrnon examining the mediating roles of self-esteem and identity style on the relationship betweenrnparenting style and psychological wellbeing. Furthermore, parenting style differences due torndemographic variables (sex, family structure & number of siblings) was another concern of thernstudy. With the same procedure in study one, data were collected from 411 participants (Male =rn211; Female = 200) for the main study and the analyses were made using mainly multiplernregression, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), and path analysis. The resultsrnindicated that adolescents who perceived their parents as decent and reasonable showed betterrnoff in their self-esteem, identity style and psychological wellbeing. Moreover, self-esteem,rninformational identity style and normative identity style were partially mediated betweenrnparenting styles and psychological wellbeing. Furthermore, significant differences inrnadolescents’ perceived parenting styles were observed due to the differences in their sex, familyrnstructure and number of sibling. Finally, based on the findings, some practical and theoreticalrnimplications, limitations and directions for future research were addressed

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