Published Paper Details:

Role of Parental support in Social Adjustment of Adolescents Parenting style is considered to be a combination of natural and social process. Adolescence is an instigative and dynamic period for youngsters. Mother is measured to be the primary caregiver, emotionally promises and upbringing the child while, father is professed to be earning and leading personality. Social adjustment is an effort made by an individual to manage with ethics, values and desires of a society in order to be accepted. The main objective of the present study was to assess the role of parenting style on social adjustment of adolescents. The cross- sectional comparative study was conducted at private schools (secondary school going students) of urban area of Aligarh city. A series of socio demographic factors, parenting style scale, social adjustment scale are used for the purpose of data collection. It is also found that parents have higher authoritative and authoritarian parenting style with girls and higher permissive parenting style with boys. There is a positive social adjustment with father's parenting and negative social adjustment with mother's parenting. Parenting style is very necessary phenomenon for adolescent in social adjustment. Healthy parenting adolescents have healthy and positive adjustment in society, nation and also self- development.