The term parenting is generally used to explain how a child’s behavior and development is influenced by parents (Bornstein, 2002). Darling and Steinberg (1993) defined parenting style as a global climate involving family functioning and entailing the process of child-rearing. What children learn and how they react in certain situation is affected by their relationships with parents and parenting styles and behavior (Collins & Laursen, 1999). Adolescence has been reported as a critical stage for children to adjust with the biological changes and assigned social roles. There is also a change in the attitude and behavior of parents when children enter into adolescence period. The expectations of adolescents from their parents and parents’ expectations from adolescent children usually clash with each other (Batool, 2013). Hence, parents' role is critical for adolescents to reach their full potential (Youniss & Ruth, 2002), which entails the measurement of parenting styles of parents via valid and reliable measurement tools. A substantial body of literature demonstrates that dimensions of positive or adequate and negative or inadequate (viz., authoritative, authoritarian, permissive or neglecting) parenting are differentially associated with the prosocial and antisocial behavior of children and adolescents (see Batool, 2013).

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