Parenting Styles Influence Adolescent Emotional Maturity Across Gender

Parenting style and emotional maturity among adolescents across gender Name Institution affiliation Introduction The study on parenting styles and adolescence is an interesting topic that is always a subject of debate. Adolescents go through transitions that carry opportunities and risks that influence and shape the future of the young generation. The eminent habits and characters exhibited by adolescents pause a concern hence an interesting topic to study. The parent-adolescent relationship often reduces, creating refute and a chasm in their midst. Parents influence their children in adolescence. They can set standards on healthy behaviors by effective care and monitoring to create an effective home environment. The period of adolescence is difficult; it is connected to emotions, and deep intuition Parenting styles have a significance in the social, psychological, emotional, and social development of an adolescent. Parenting styles constitute parents’ behaviors and attitudes which creates an emotional environment where the parents' behaviors are manifested. Adolescence is a critical stage where parents and the youth are deemed to reestablish their relationships. Various researchers have linked parenting styles to emotional maturity. According to (Sindhu& Jain 2020), Parenting style is the art of bringing up children where parents, feelings, and teaching towards children play a significant role in ones-life. Emotional maturity is a rare attribute that adolescence possesses. It entails having the ability to manage emotions in whichever circumstances. According to (Alexander 1967), emotional maturity designates that phase of personality development, which corresponds to biological and psychological maturation. He also claims that a person is psychologically mature after he has reached a certain level of intelligence and emotional outlook. Adolescents are not always prepared for emotional maturation as their bodies' biology emanate and seem grown but immature on the ins