Parenting Styles, Birth Order, and Self-esteem Among Female Young Adults of Bangalore

Young adulthood is a transitional period where one’s self esteem presents a mediating aspect and parenting style and birth order have been found to have associations with ones self-esteem. The aim of the study was to identify if there is a variation in self-esteem among the different parenting styles, to identify if there is a variation in self-esteem among the different birth order and to identify the variation on self-esteem in perceived parenting style among first and last born female young adults. The sample included 126 first and last born female young adults of Bangalore. The tools used are Perceived Parenting Style Inventory and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Mann Whitney U Test and Kruskal Wallis Test were used along with descriptive statistics to analyse the data. Findings show that there is a significant variation in self-esteem among the different perceived parenting styles, no significant variation was found in self-esteem among first and last born female young adults and no significant variation was found in self-esteem among first and last born female young adults who perceived their parents as authoritative.