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3. Consequences of Over- parenting

When studying how over-parenting negatively impact on children’s personality it is
necessary to consider about the consequences that children have to face because of

over parenting. As above mentioned over parenting means parent’s try to
micromanage the children’s life by preventing children from take decision on them,
protecting them from any physical, emotional discomfort and preventing them from

experiencing the consequences of their own behaviors. Although parents try to make
better situation for their children by over parenting, it leads to do more harm than

good. These are some negative consequences of over parenting that impact on
children personality. Personality means a one’s own characteristic way of thinking,
feeling, behaving and interacting with other people in a society. It includes behavioral

characteristics both inherent and acquired. These acquired characteristics spread one
people to another and can be observed by people’s relation with environment and
social group.

3.1 Anxiety and Depression

In agreement with the ideas of LeMoyne & Buchanan (2011), over parenting has been
associated with psychological distress, which may be related to emerging adult

children’s levels of depression, anxiety, and perceived stress. When the children face
to the over parenting in their childhood there is a high chance to them becomes

oversensitive adults. This situation leads them to occurrence of anxiety and
depression. Over protective parents think world is bad place for their children and
children can easily hurt by it. So, they always should protect the children from outside

world. Children allows to interacted with only limited people who approved by
parents and because of this child can’t make their own friends or experience the nature
of outsider world. And also, parents don’t teach children to confronting with situation

of fear. They only guide to avoid such kind of situations. As a result of this when the
children become adults, he has no experience to deal with world and occur social
anxiety and social awkwardness. Because of the anxiety when they haven’t anyone

to share their things psychological distress can be occurred. Long term distress leads

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