The Effect of Parenting Style on Value Orientation and Personality Traits among College Students in Kolkata

The study explores the effect of parenting style on the value orientation and personality traits of college students in Kolkata. This study used the Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri,199)1, and the Value Rating Questionnaire, NEO–FIVE Factor Inventory (Costa, P. X., Sr., & McCrae, R. R.,1985). It uses the parental Authority Questionnaire and the NEO-FIVE Factor Inventory to analyze the effects of parenting styles on personality traits. The findings reveal high levels of extraversion, neuroticism, and contentiousness among students. The study also finds a positive correlation between permissive parenting style on neuroticism and extraversion, and authoritarian parenting style on religious value orientation and agreeableness. However, it also shows a negative correlation between permissive parenting style and social, religious, and moral value orientation. The study concludes that permissive parenting style positively affects religious, moral, and extraversion traits, while authoritarian parenting style positively affects social, religious, and moral values.