Influence of Parenting Styles on Adolescents Life-Skills Development: A Case of Adolescents Attending Teens Church in Deliverance Church International Umoja, Nairobi County
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2020-10
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Daystar University, School of Human and Social Sciences
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the parenting styles used by parents in Deliverance Church International Umoja (DCIU) on their adolescent children and the influence the parenting styles had on the adolescents’ life-skills development. The study's objectives were to identify parenting styles employed by DCIU parents on their children, investigate the life-skills employed by adolescents attending the teens’ service in DCIU, establish the influence of parenting styles on adolescents’ life-skills development, and explore the relationship between social-demographic factors of parents and adolescents’ life-skills development. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study, and the target population comprised 2,050 adolescents’ aged 12-19 years attending DCIU. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 242 respondents. Questionnaires were used in data collection, and the data was analyzed through descriptive statistics using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. The study findings revealed that 15.2% of the parents employed the authoritative parenting style, 16.7% practiced authoritarian parenting style, 25.0% employed permissive parenting style, while 43.1% employed neglectful parenting style. In regard to the life-skills employed by adolescents attending the teens’ service in DCIU, 29.4% of them employed social skills, 22.1% employed emotional skills, and 48.5% employed cognitive skills. In terms of the influence of parenting styles on adolescents’ life-skills development, the study revealed that there was no significant association between parenting style and life-skills development. It was concluded that all the parenting styles equally contributed to the adolescents’ life-skills development. The study recommends the need for church leaders to create a platform where parents of adolescents in the different age categories can meet and share the parenting styles they use, the development outcomes the parenting styles have had on the adolescents, and the challenges the adolescents have faced.
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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
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Parenting Styles, Adolescents Life-Skills Development, Teens Church, Deliverance Church International Umoja
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Nzuki, M. M. (2020). Influence of Parenting Styles on Adolescents Life-Skills Development: A Case of Adolescents Attending Teens Church in Deliverance Church International Umoja, Nairobi County. Daystar University, School of Human and Social Sciences: Nairobi