Perceived Parenting Styles and Filial Piety Among Adolescents: Moderating Role of Morality and Good Affection

Abstract

The aim of present research was to investigate the direct as well as indirect effects of perceived parenting styles on the filial piety of adolescents. Adolescents between 14 to 18 years of age are the focal respondents of the study. The study also focused to identify whether the demographics such as gender, age, family system, and time spend with parents influence the study variables. This study was carried out in two phases. Phase i included pilot study that was conducted to check the psychometric properties of scales. Measures of the perceived parenting style scale (Divya & Manikandan, 2013), The Moral Identity Questionnaire (Black & Reynolds, 2016), Good Affection Scale (Shi & Wang, 2019) and Filial Piety Scale (Shi & Wang, 2019) the core protocols used to appraise the major constructs of the study. The sample for pilot study comprised of 120 adolescents taken from different schools and colleges of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The results of pilot study depicted good alpha reliabilities and all the item to total correlation and person correlation were found to be with-in acceptable range and in assumed direction. Phase II was main study. Sample comprised of 400 adolescents from different schools and colleges of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Analysis revealed that perceived authoritative parenting style (mother & father) shows positive alliance in regard to the morality, good affection and filial piety. Perceived authoritarian parenting style (mother & father) and perceived permissive parenting style (mother & father) shows negative alliance in regard to the morality, good affection and filial piety. Morality shows positive alliance in regard to the good affection and filial piety. Good affection shows positive alliance in regard to filial piety. morality significantly moderates the relationship between perceived authoritative parenting (mother & father), perceived authoritarian parenting (mother & father) and perceived permissive parenting (mother & father),while good affection significantly moderates the relationship between perceived authoritative parenting (mother & father), perceived authoritarian parenting (mother) and perceived permissive parenting (mother),further, group differences were revealed for gender, age, family system and time spend with parents. Implications and limitations of the present study were also discussed.