RELATIONSHIP OF MORAL VALUES AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF CHILDREN WITH PARENTING STYLE AND SPIRITUALITY OF MOTHERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out relation between moral values, emotional intelligence of children with authoritative parenting style and spirituality of mothers. For this study total 314 sample participated ( 157 mothers and 157 their children ). Age range of children was 12 to 17 yrs. For measure variables four tests was used two for mothers and two for children. For parenting styles Parenting Practices Questioner by Robinson et.al ,and Spiritual Personality by Husain used. For children Emotional Intelligence Scale by Sharma and Moral Values Scale by Gupta and Singh used. Pearson ‘s Product Movement correlation , regression analysis was done for finding correlation between authoritative parenting style , spiritual personality and emotional intelligence and moral values of children. For gender difference between boys and girls on emotional intelligence and moral values t test was employed. Results revealed that positive correlation found between authoritative parenting style and emotional intelligence of children r = .244, p < .01, spiritual personality positively correlated with emotional intelligence of children r = .184, p < .05. No significant correlation found between authoritative parenting style and spiritual personality of parents with children moral values. Regression analysis shown that authoritative parenting and spirituality of mothers are predictor for emotional intelligence of the children. There were no gender difference found on emotional intelligence and moral values of children. Some exploratory findings also discussed in the paper.