International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Ashwini V Yankati and Manjula Patil

abstract
A study was conducted to assess parenting styles of mothers of rural and urban preschool children: child correlated factors during 2020-2023 at UAS, Dharwad. The sample of the study comprised of 200 parents (100 rural and 100 urban) having children of age between 3-6 years attending Anganwadi and nursery school preschool children. The correlational research design was used to know relationship between parenting styles and factors related to rural and urban children. Robinson’s parenting style tool developed was used to measure the parenting style and self-structured questionnaire was used to gather information of children. The chi-square and t-test method were used for data analysis. The results revealed that, most of parents (45.5%) had authoritarian parenting style, (42.00%) of parents had authoritative parenting style and only (12.50%) of them had permissive parenting style. There was significant mean difference found between parenting styles with rural and urban children. Among them authoritative was most preferred parenting style for rural children and authoritarian parenting styles was most preferred for urban children. Among rural and urban, majority of parents with children of age between (3-4 years and 4-5 years) had preferred authoritative parenting style whereas more than half of children age between 5-6 years had parents preferred with authoritarian parenting style and had significant association (3.84*) was observed. The findings also highlighted with gender that, a significant association (2.18*) was found among male children’s parents of both rural and urban had preferred authoritarian parenting style whereas female children’s parents had preferred authoritative parenting style. In rural and urban, younger children’s parents had found to be authoritative parenting style whereas older children’s parents had found to be authoritarian parenting style. In both rural and urban, male children’s parents had found to prefer authoritarian parenting style whereas female children’s parents had found follow authoritative parenting style.