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The foundation of development of individual is the family. Parents are the important factor in the growth and development of children. It is important for parents especially for mothers to be warm and close to their children to maintain quality parent-child relationship. The behaviors of the parents boost psychological, social, and healthy outcomes for children. Rohner introduced Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory. Rohner has defined the acceptance and rejection in terms of the child’s perception of parental behaviour. This theory also predicts that the rejected children tend more than accepted children to be hostile, aggressive, to be dependent, and to have low self-esteem and self—adequacy, emotionally unstable; emotionally unresponsive. According to this theory, whether a parent accepts or rejects the child, it always affects the child’s personality formation and development. Therefore, based on Parental Acceptance and Rejection theory proposed and developed by Rohner, the present research paper aimed at exploring how the adolescent perception of parental acceptance and rejection could be related to their level of psychological adjustment and academic stress.
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