Prevalence of helicopter parenting among adolescents in a selected school, Thiruvananthapuram

Gaining independence from various restriction set by parents is overjoy for adolescent. However, it does not always happen as it planned. The current study was aimed to assess “Prevalence of Helicopter parenting among adolescents” in a selected school, Thiruvananthapuram. The objectives of the study were to assess the prevalence of Helicopter Parenting among adolescents, to assess the prevalence of Helicopter Parenting of fathers of adolescents, to assess the prevalence of Helicopter Parenting of mothers of adolescents, to find out the association between prevalence of Helicopter Parenting of father’s and selected socio-personal variables and to find out the association between prevalence of Helicopter Parenting of mother’s and selected socio-personal variables. The sample size consists of 209 adolescents in a selected school Thiruvananthapuram. The tool used was structured questionnaire with 2 sections, section A consists of socio-personal variables such as age, gender, class of study, birth order, religion, place of residence, annual income, occupation of mother and father, parenting style of mother and father and section B consists of standardized Helicopter Parenting Instrument which consists of 15 statements that is rated by a 5-point Likert scale. The data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS. The result of the present study revealed that there is moderate prevalence of helicopter parenting practice in adolescents. Both parents exhibit helicopter parenting behavior and among that, majority of fathers (74.6%) showed helicopter parenting styles than the mothers (74.2%).