The Relationship of Parenting Style and the Extent of Problem Behaviors in Students.

Abstract

Abstract: Introduction: Parenting style has a range of different outcomes in terms of adolescent's psychological development, their family relationships, school performance, confidence and decision making capacities. The results of studies about relation between parenting style, autonomy and adjustment in adolescents are different and controversial. So researcher decides to explore this study. Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional study with multistage cluster sampling of 360 adolescents studying in Tabriz high schools. Questionnaires using in this study were parenting style inventory II, emotional autonomy scale (EAS), perspective on adolescent decision making –B questionnaire, self-esteem scale, academic competence scale, social competence scale, problem behavior scale and depressive mood scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS (ver.11). Results: The findings indicated that the majority of adolescents 39.7% reported authoritative parenting style and relation between parenting style and emotional autonomy (F=78.6, p=0.000), behavioral autonomy (F=6.4, p=0.000), psychosocial adjustment (including dimension of self –esteem F=99.9, p=0.000, academic competence F=187.8, p=0.000, social competence F=229.4, p=0.000, problem behavior F=504.9, p=0.000 and depressive mood F=414.5, p=0.000) was significant. Discussion and Conclusion: Regarding the fact that the majority of adolescents reported authoritative parenting style and relation between parenting style and other variables was significant, so knowledge of nurses about education parents for adolescence's characteristic and parenting style outcomes lead to achieve healthy autonomy and adjustment for the adolescents.