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GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 27

Development Across the Life Span · Physical, Cognitive and Psychosocial Development: Infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Parenting style in which parents are so involved that children are permitted to behave without set limits is termed as________.

  1. Permissive neglectful parenting
  2. Permissive indulgent parenting
  3. Authoritarian parenting
  4. Willful parenting

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Correct answer: (B) Permissive indulgent parenting

Explanation

In Baumrind's scheme, indulgent (permissive) parents are warm and involved but set few limits and let children do as they like. Neglectful parents are not involved at all, and authoritarian parents set strict limits.