HOVERING, PARENTAL CONTROL AND RESPONSIVENESS IN RELATION WITH COLLEGE ADJUSTMENT ISSUES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENTIAL AND NON RESIDENTIAL STUDENTS.

Parental support, protectiveness, and involvement in a child’s life are generally considered a positive thing. In recent years, parents who are highly involved in their child’s life are termed as “Helicopter parents”. The study is conducted to see if hovering, parental control and responsiveness are related to college adjustment issues among undergraduate residential and non-residential students. The sample consists of 145 undergraduate students of Amity University, Gurga on. The results indicated hovering is more on Non Residential students than on Residential students. A significant relationship is also seen of hovering with parental responsiveness, but the relationship of hovering with college adjustment like problem in career choice, academic issues and suicidal ideation was not significant. There was no significant difference found in Residential and Non Residential undergraduate students for parental control and parental responsiveness. A negative moderate correlation of father responsiveness is found with suicidal ideation.