Background: Positive parenting and enabling socio-demography, engenders good conduct in adolescence. Balanced parental demandingness and emotional responsiveness, deployed by authoritative parents, supports adolescents’ mental health. Parental emotional responsiveness deters peer-pressured risky behaviours; while parental negligence, permissiveness, or demandingness encourages mental health problems. This is especially in the context of unfavourable socio-demographic setting. Aim: We aimed to evaluate parenting styles and socio-demographic factors associated with adolescents’ mental health. Method: A cross-sectional multistage study was conducted with 286 in-school adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data were collected with questionnaires. The questionnaires evaluated socio-demography, mental health, and perceived parenting styles using the Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) and Scale of Parenting Styles (SPS) questionnaires. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS 21. Results: Some of the adolescents in this study, experienced peer problems (4.9%), conduct problems (9.4%), hyperactivity problems (0.7%), emotional problems (14.3%), and they lacked pro-social behaviours (11.1%). In comparison to adolescents who perceived fathers as authoritative, adolescents who perceived fathers as less demanding experienced emotional (p = 0.01) and peer (p = 0.02) problems. Perceived maternal negligence and authoritarian parenting was associated with more peer problems (1.5±2.3 and 1.3±2.2) in comparison to perceived maternal authoritative style (0.6±1.5). Most adolescents from lower social class experienced conduct (88.8%; p = 0.07) and emotional problems (73.2%; p = 0.20). Conclusion: Competent parenting style and socio-economic resources supports resilience to mental health problems in adolescents.

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与尼日利亚西南部伊巴丹市青少年心理健康相关的父母教养方式和社会人口动态

背景：积极的养育子女能力和有利的社会人口统计学特征，会在青少年时期表现良好。权威父母调动的父母对父母的要求和情感反应的平衡，有助于青少年的心理健康。父母的情绪反应可以阻止同伴压力下的冒险行为；父母的疏忽，宽容或苛刻会助长精神健康问题。尤其是在不利的社会人口环境中。目的：我们旨在评估与青少年心理健康相关的养育方式和社会人口统计学因素。方法：在尼日利亚的伊巴丹对286名在校青少年进行了横断面多阶段研究。用问卷收集数据。问卷评估了社会人口统计学，心理健康，强度和难度问卷（SDQ）和父母教养方式比重（SPS）问卷调查和感知父母教养方式。使用SPSS 21进行数据分析。结果：本研究中的一些青少年经历过同伴问题（4.9％），行为问题（9.4％），活动过度问题（0.7％），情绪问题（14.3％），并且他们缺乏亲社会行为（11.1％）。与认为父亲是权威的青少年相比，认为父亲要求较低的青少年会遇到情绪问题（p = 0.01）和同伴问题（p = 0.02）。与知觉的母体权威风格（0.6±1.5）相比，知觉的母体疏忽和专制父母与更多同伴问题（1.5±2.3和1.3±2.2）相关。来自下层社会阶层的大多数青少年经历过品行（88.8％; p = 0。07）和情绪问题（73.2％； p = 0.20）。结论：有能力的养育方式和社会经济资源可支持青少年应对心理健康问题的能力。