Perceived Parenting Styles and Adolescent Self-Esteem in Urban Nepal

A survey of 343 adolescent students in grades 9 and 10 from Tokha municipality, Nepal. The data was collected by Pratibha Bhandari and last updated in May 2026. It measures self-esteem and perceived parenting styles using standardized psychological scales.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between authoritative parenting and self-esteem based on survey scores.
• Investigating socio-demographic risk factors for low self-esteem based on school type and parental education.
• Cross-cultural comparison of parenting style effects based on data from an understudied geographic context.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 343 survey responses from a defined population.
• Specific statistical results are reported, such as a correlation of 0.33 between authoritative parenting and self-esteem.
• Data is licensed as CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.

Limitations

• The authors note a lack of representativeness for rural contexts and potential social desirability bias.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using probability sampling among school students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 17:37:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tokha municipality, Nepal