2026/07/28 by Adugna Bersissa Merdassa
#Adolescents #Parenting Practices
paper · doi:10.20372/star.v14.i1.03
This study was conducted aiming to determine the associations between parenting practices and adolescents’ involvement in risky behaviors. To this end, the correlational research design was employed. The samples of the study were 354 secondary school adolescents in three Wollega zones. The results showed that the majority of the parents in the study area practiced an authoritative parenting style; higher levels of adolescents’ perception of parenting practices were correlated negatively with their involvement in risky behaviors. The variance in adolescents` involvement in risky behavior was significantly attributed to parental monitoring, parent-adolescent connectedness, and parenting styles. However, the influence of perceived parent-adolescent communication was non-significant. The present study finding also revealed that male adolescents were more involved in risky behaviors than their female counterparts. It is recommended that community-based interventions should be provided by the professionals in the area mainly to the non-authoritative parents to help them equipped with the knowledge and skills of raising children invo lving the supervision of children`s whereabouts, connectedness and closeness to children, and communication on sexuality and other issues to safeguard adolescents from being involved in risky behaviors.