Parenting, Self-Efficacy and Depression among Youth

Depression is an affective, or mood disorder. It is an illness that immerses its sufferers in a world of self-blame, confusion and hopelessness. It is an illness of the mind and the body. The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationships between parenting, self efficacy and depression among youth. The sample of 400 youth with age range of 18-40 were administered psychological test that is Beck Depression Inventory, PAQ-R is a parental self report version of the original PAQ intended for use with parents of children and self efficacy questionnaire (SEQ,Peter,2002). Product movement method was used to know the relationship between all the variables, results have been presented in table. A significant association was found between 3 parenting styles Self-efficacy and measures of Depression.