摘要：A sample of 400 respondents (100 of each fathers, mothers, sons and daughters) from
middle and upper- middle class nuclear families were examined for role of emotional maturity of parents
in determining quality of the parent- teen relationships. Parent child relationship scales and social
adjustment inventory was used for assessment. It was found that emotionally well-adjusted fathers
were significantly more accepting, had more positive influence of their good marital relations on their
teenagers and had more realistic role expectations from their sons and daughters. Sons perceived
moderately maladjusted fathers as significantly indifferent however, daughters perceived them as
significantly physically punishing. On the other hand, emotionally well-adjusted and moderately
adjusted mothers did not differ in their perceptions. Sons and daughters also perceived their emotionally
adjusted and moderately maladjusted mothers as similar on all the dimensions of parent-child
relationship scale. Emotional adjustment of fathers contributed significantly in improving the quality
of father-son relationship.
关键词：Perception. Marital Adjustment. Realistic Role Expectations. Father-son Relationship
