The Relationship Between Parenting Style And Self Concept

The aimed of this research is to find out the relationship between parenting style and adolescent self-concept. A group of seventy-four (74) students from Tamhidi Program of Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM) was selected as the sample through simple random method. They were given with two (2) sets of questionnaire; Tennessee Self Concept: 2 (TSCS: 2) by Fitz & Warrant (1996) and Baumrind Parenting Topology Index (BPTI) in order to obtain the parenting style and self-concept data. The results was analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package of Science Social) version 20. Pearson correlation analysis shows that there is negative correlation between permissive parenting style and respondent self-concept (r=-0.203). The result also shows that there's no correlation between authoritarian parenting style and the respondent's self-concept (r=0.036). However the result shows that there is significant correlation between authoritative parenting style and the respondent's self-concept (r=0.274).