Approximately three months before starting college, 203 high school seniors completed a questionnaire consisting of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) assessing their parents' parenting styles. The PAQ yielded scores on three parenting styles originally proposed by Baumrind (1971): authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. Two weeks after starting college the students completed a questionnaire consisting of the Dundee Relocation Inventory assessing degree of homesickness and the Tests of Reactions and Adaptations to College assessing adjustment to college. Authoritarian parents had students with lower self-esteem and self-efficacy, while authoritative parents had students with higher self-esteem and self-efficacy. There was no relationship between permissiveness in parents and the students' levels of self-esteem or self-efficacy. Students higher in self-esteem and self-efficacy experienced less homesickness and showed better emotional and behavioral adjustment to college. Conversely, students lower in self-esteem and self-efficacy experienced more homesickness and had a more difficult adjustment to college. (Contains 6 figures.)