A review of the mental health, general well being and parenting styles of adolescents

Abstract

Family plays a crucial role in a child's upbringing, influencing their development and support for emotions as well as their attachment preferences. Parenting styles play a significant part in family life since parents are important figures of attachment whose impact extends well beyond infancy, young adulthood and into adulthood. The primary source of the children's behavioural issues is believed to be the parents' nurturing and parenting practices. Parenting styles are characterized by a parent's general demeanour towards their offspring, encompassing methods and behaviours that influence a child's overall
growth. The heightened levels of anxiety and psychological stress in the house are influenced by the parenting style, which in turn affects parent-child relationships as the base of one's childhood. Parents shape a child's attitude towards personal achievement, teach how to approach difficulties in life and satisfy psychological and physiological needs be. A parenting style is understood as a set of approaches and behaviors a parent elicits towards a child. Children's psychological condition is influenced by their parents' interactions with them. The seed of good mental health is planted as early as childhood. Parents
happen to be the most powerful catalysts in promoting good mental health in their children's lives. Parents' upbringing and child rearing styles are the important factors in changing and stabilizing the behavioral problems of children, similarly foundation of self-esteem is laid early in life. The transitional stage of adolescence is marked by a range of behavioural challenges, development, biology, socialization, and academics. It is feasible for emotional issues to surface later in life as an
adult if mental health concerns are not addressed during adolescence. The style of parenting is one of the main determinants of development during this transitional time of life. Therefore present paper reviews the relationship between parenting style and adolescent’s mental health and well being that how various forms of parenting approaches or styles(i.e., authoritarian, authoritative , permissive and uninvolved) affect the children's mental health and well being.