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Parental Support as a Predictor of Optimism and Pessimism in Adolescents: A Statistical Study

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Aarti Vats1,* ORCID logo  |  Vandana Goswami1

1Department of Education, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding Author: aartivats20@gmail.com

Received: 23 January 2025 | Revised: 02 February 2024

Accepted: 04 February 2025 | Published Online: 06 February 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15106677

© 2025 The Authors, under a Creative Commons license, Published by Scholarly Publication

Abstract

This study evaluates parental support’s impact on predicting teenagers’ optimism and pessimism levels. Altogether, 384 participants were analyzed using regression analysis and ANOVA in SPSS to determine the relationship between parental support and adolescents’ emotional states. The findings have a high positive correlation between parental support and optimism, where β = 0.62, p < 0.001. Thus, it depicts that more significant support from the parent has a good correlation with rising optimism in adolescents. Inversely, low parental support is strongly associated with a rise in pessimism as recorded by β = -0.55, p < 0.001, therefore depicting the measure of parental engagement determining the emotional outlook of an adolescent. The regression results confirm that parental support significantly affects both optimism and pessimism, with R² = 0.48, thereby indicating very high explanatory power. The result suggests that the formation of a supportive environment for parents is a condition that fosters the psychological wellbeing of adolescents. The study recommends targeted interventions to strengthen parental engagement, promote emotional resilience, and reduce negative emotional tendencies among high school students.

Keywords

Parental supports, Adolescents, Optimism, Pessimism

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A. Vats and V. Goswami, “Parental Support as a Predictor of Optimism and Pessimism in Adolescents: A Statistical Study,” Yatharth 1(1) (2025) 251005. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15106677

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