Abstract
The present study is an attempt to investigate the effects of perceived parental styles on the psychological health of adults. Researches reveal that rejection and overprotection specially play a significant role in developing their perception for parental styles as adaptive or maladaptive. In the light of the research review, it has been hypoth- esized that individuals who perceive their parental styles as maladap- tive are more vulnerable to psychological problems like depression than individuals who perceive their parental styles as adaptive.
Perceived parental styles and the psychological problems were measured by the Egna Minnen Betraffande Uppforstran (EMBU, Swedish acronym for "My Memories of Upbringing) and Symptom Assessment-45 (SA-45) questionnaire's respectively. The sample comprised one hundred and sixty one (161) students, i.e. 81 male and 80 female students participated in this research. Initially they filled the demographic information form and then EMBU and SA-45 questionnaires were administered.
The scores of EMBU questionnaire of the students were statistically evaluated by 95% Confidence Interval. Furthermore one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test were applied on the data in order to get statistical significance of results.