A Study of Family Management Styles

Abstract

Family as the first social organization, a cornerstone role in personality building, inculcation of values and morals; meets emotional needs, creating conditions for individual and social development. Quality of the relationships in family and its steadiness to a great extent dependent on management methods, manner of its members’ interaction and family decision making procedures. Parenting styles mean a repertoire of behavioral conduct and strategies used by parents or heads of family to control interaction of its members and guide its behavior for its growth and to harmonize interests of individual and of group. The study in hand will review family management styles with a focus on its role to refine the relationship within family and strengthen the family unity.

The nature of the study has basic objectives, in type it is Descriptive and in analysis is also Descriptive-Analytical and in research design, it is Correlational. Data were collected by doing reviewing in the library based sources such as book, scientific article, thesis, and other scientific writing and references reliable for this. The extracted data has been analyzed and interpreted according to procedure of data analysis. The analysis of collected data indicate that family management styles have significant positive correlation with quality of interpersonal relationships, family cohesion, psychological health and up-growing. As authoritative parenting and co-determination parent’s styles create more effective results among these are because it has blended appropriate affection, control and independence from both parent. Because of high control and low support of the authoritarian family as opposed to laissez-faire parenting styles which is characterized by lack of control and high support it lead to low trust, less empathy of relationship, less psychic protection etc.

Also, a host of various factors including socio-cultural, economic and religious influence to increase efficiency of family management’s skills. In terms of Islamic approach Family Management is based on kindness, equity, consolatory and reciprocal rights & responsibilities of Muslim Umma’ah; therefore; enhancement of familial communication skills as well as family management styles will pave the road to healthy functional stable families.