The relationship between Parenting Styles with Emotional Intelligence and Life Satisfaction among University Students

This research is conducted to examine the relationship of parenting styles with emotional intelligence level and life satisfaction of university students. Previously, multiple studies have been conducted on relationship between parenting styles with either emotional intelligence or life satisfaction as well as emotional intelligence and life satisfaction however limited literature been found all these three variables together in Pakistan. The questionnaires which are employed in this investigation are Parental Authority Questionnaire, Emotional Intelligence Scale by Schutte(1998) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). It is a correlational, quantitative research for which data was collected from different universities of Karachi through non-probability convenient sampling. To analyze the data, regression analysis was run on SPSS in order to inspect the relationship between the variables. Additionally, Independent t tests were run to inspect the significant difference between the variables. Results indicate that there is a significant positive correlation between permissive and authoritative parenting styles with emotional intelligence but an insignificant relationship between authoritarian parents and emotional intelligence. Also, permissive and authoritative parenting styles are insignificantly correlated with life satisfaction, however, permissive fathers have a slightly significant correlation with life satisfaction. It was also found that authoritarian parenting style is significantly positively correlated with life satisfaction. Lastly, there is a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction.