Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

The study entitled “Gender differences in parenting: a perceptional view from adolescence and parents” was undertaken at Barpeta district of Lower Assam of North East India. Sample of the study comprised of 200 adolescents between age 16 to 17 years of age and their parents. A self developed parenting style tool was used for studying parenting style. The tool comprising of 32 items in four parenting styles as subscale. To observe the gender differences on adolescents’ perception on parenting and parents’ perception on parenting, means, standard deviations were calculated and compared and independent t-test was computed for determining the differences between the groups. Results revealed that no significant gender difference was observed in both adolescents’ perception on their parents’ parenting styles and parents’ perception on their own parenting.