Psychological Well-Being and Quality of Parenting among Children of Single Parent Family

Recent evidences suggest that children from single parent families do less well on average than children who live with both the parent. They perform poor in school, obtain fewer years of education and have trouble keeping a steady job as young adults. Current evidence suggests that the loss of contact with parents, economic difficulties, stress, parent adjustment and competence and inter-parental conflict all contribute some degree of difficulties to children and result is in low psychological well-being. Thus the aim of the present study is to find out the association between parenting style and psychological well-being of children of single parent family. For this purpose the sample of 100 (50 children of single parent due to divorce and 50 children of single parent due to death) was taken from the Delhi city. War's (1978) psychological well-being scale and parenting scale of Bharadwaj, Sharma and Garg were used in order to measure psychological well being and parenting style respectively. The significance of difference between two means described that there is not any difference between children of single parent(divorce) and children of single parent(death) on the variables psychological well being and parenting style. The result revealed that parenting style is positively and significantly related with psychological well-being of the children of divorced family as well as children from the single parent due to death. Similar result was obtained for all the styles of the parenting. Thus on the basis of the result it can be said that children having a strong feeling of acceptance, protection, involvement, care and attention from their parents, showed a higher sense of positive orientation towards life therefore high psychological well-being is in result.