Exploration of parenting styles and personality traits through expressive arts among Malaysian private college emerging adults: A case study / Asha Raj I. S. Nadarajah

• Main Author: Asha Raj , I. S. Nadarajah
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: BF Psychology; L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15151/1/Asha_Raj.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15151/2/Asha_Raj.pdf; http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15151/

Parenting style is one of the essential factors that affects the holistic development of every child especially as the child grows up into emerging adult. Parenting style plays vital and important role that determine the personality of an emerging adult which includes their level of self -esteem and the development of identity status. For the purpose of this study, the researcher explored the parenting styles and the personality traits of Malaysian private college emerging adults through expressive arts since expressive arts enables the researcher to explore and understand the psychic of the participants. This is a case study that involved five participants. The finding from this research showed that all the parents of the research participants practiced different types of parenting styles that influenced the personality traits of the participants in various ways. There were six emerging themes that were found in this study which are: a) types of parents; b) childhood experiences; c) life at school/ college; d) future/dreams; e) spirituality; f) personality traits. At the end of this research, the researcher concluded that emerging adults who grew up with parents who practiced healthy parenting style will grow up as emerging adults who has healthy personality traits with high sense of self.