Perceived interparental-consistency: relationships between aggressive behavior and life satisfaction in adolescents

The quality of the relationship between parents and their children is connected to different indicators of psycho social adjustment. This research aims to establish to what extent parents' permissive attitude had an impact on adolescents' aggressive behavior and life satisfaction. Moreover, it also aims to identify if some kinds of inconsistent parenting style could be related to obtaining favourable or unfavourable rates in the above mentioned dimensions. A total of 1200 compulsory secondary education and first year of non-compulsory secondary education students took part in this research. The results show that students whose parents have a permissive attitude are less aggressive and more satisfied with their lives. Furthermore, it is observed that in those families where the mother is permissive and the father is not authoritative the negative effects which are sometimes connected to an inconsistent parenting style are reduced.