Satisfaction with Life in Relation to Perceived Parental Rearing Styles

Parental rearing behaviour is a significant etiological factor in a vulnerability model of psychopathology and connected to child' psycho-social development and social problems as such, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived parenting rearing styles and satisfaction with life in adult Indian married couples. Therefore, psychoanalytically validated Hindi version of instruments for the assessment of the perceived parental rearing styles (PPRSQ) and satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) were administered on a sample of 600 married Indian Hindi speaking couple which included 50 % male and 50 % female persons with 10 to 20 years of mamed life. The instruments were filled out by the participants. The results of step wise (backward) regression analysts revealed: (i) the four factors of PPRSQ (parental rejection, emotional warmth, over protection and favouring subject)predicted(a)a total of 8.371% of variance,(b)rejection,emotional warmth and favouring subject (deleting over protection factor) predicted a total of 8.318% of variance, (c) emotional warmth and favouring subject together (deleting rejection and over protection factors) predicted a total of 8.201% of variance, and (d) emotional warmth (deleting rejection, over protection and favouring subject factors) predicted a total of 8.140% of variance of life satisfaction. In summary, the findings proved an association between recalled parental rearing styles and life satisfaction in Indian cultural context.