Perceived parenting style and life satisfaction among selected Filipino adolescents

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to determine the difference of the perceived parenting styles and the level of life satisfaction among selected Filipino adolescents through a descriptive-differential design. A purposive sampling was used to gather 120 students who were limited by age, year level, family structure, and presence of parents. The adolescents were assessed with the Scale. Frequency and percentage were used to describe the raw scores being collected, while One-way ANOVA was used to test the significance of group differences of the variables. Results indicated that most Filipino adolescents perceive an authoritative style from their mothers and fathers, and that their life satisfaction is on the satisfied level. Due to the acceptance of the null hypothesis, an non-significant difference in the level of life satisfaction when grouped according to perceived parenting styles of both parents were concluded. Recommendations for strengthening the parent-child ties and level of the adolescent’s life satisfaction, and implications of further directions for research such as considering other variables that can possibly use are discussed.

Filipiniana