RESUMO
Present study was designed to examine the relationship between parental restrictive control and psychopathology among Sindhi speaking adolescents. After detailed literature review it was hypothesized that: psychiatric patients would score high on the variable of strict / restrictive parental control as compared to normal adolescents. It is further hypothesized that Psychiatric patient would score low on the variable of perceived parental warmth/acceptance as compared to normal adolescents. In order to test the hypotheses, assessment of parental restrictive attitude was made through adapted version of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire/control scale [Imam, 1999], initially questionnaire was adapted in Sindhi language. This Sindhi translated versions of PARQ/Control was administered on a group of psychiatric patient [n=100;50 male and 50 female] to assess their perception about parental attitude and then this result was compared with a group of normal respondents [n-100; 50 male and 50 female]. T-test was applied for the statistical analysis of the data. Results show perceived parental restrictive control with less warmth indicates inconsistent parental attitude positively linked with psychopathology of psychiatric group. The hypotheses were significant at p<.001 level. However, for mother referent perception the difference between two groups is not significant