AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: REVISITING THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTING STYLES AND RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT AMONG YOUTH (A STUDY OF SOUTH PUNJAB PAKISTAN)

Abstract

In times negative parenting practices are the main risk factor for antisocial aggressive behavior among youth, howeverin this context, there is dearth of research studies that investigates the influence of parenting styles and religious commitment among aggressive behavior of youth. Correspondingly, the purpose of this research to examine the influence of parenting styles and religious commitment on aggressive behavior among youth of south Punjab, Pakistan. For this purpose, a cross-sectional research was designed.A totalN=381 male and females’ students from three renowned public sector universities of south Punjab were targeted through multi-stage sampling technique. However, the validation of adapted scales has been analyzed by employing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), however, structural equation modeling (SEM) method has been used for hypotheses testing. The findings showed that authoritative parenting styles has significant negative relationship with aggressive behavior, in contrast, permissive and authoritarian parenting style have significant positive relationship with aggressive behavior. Additionally, religious commitment has significant negative relationship with aggressive behavior.This study concluded that permissive and authoritarian parenting styles are the influential factor in the development of aggressive behavior, while religious commitment and authoritative parenting style are negatively influence on antisocial aggressive behavior