Abstract
It is vital to study the relationship between parenting style and self-esteem as parenting styles plays a pivotal role on development of adolescents and self-esteem is one of the main factors that affect one's good live. The current study is a cross sectional study aims to determine the relationship between Parenting Style, Self-Esteem and academic Performance among Taibah university students in Saudi Arabia Kingdom. The respondents were 200 female students from different colleges of Taibah University ages between 18-26 years old. Two tools were used for data collection, Parenting Style Inventory II Scale that developed by Nancy Darling (1997) was used to determine the parenting style, and Self Esteem Inventory that developed by Rosenberg(1965), was used to determine the self-esteem. The paper shows that most of the students have moderate self-esteem, the responsiveness parenting style was the most prevalent style among them followed by autonomy granting style and the demanding style was the least prevalent style. Autonomy and Responsiveness parenting styles were directly correlated with self-esteem levels while; Demandingness parenting style was inversely correlated with self-esteem levels. Students with demandingness parenting style had the highest GPA mean. The study recommends to increase the awareness about the constructive parenting styles.