The set of strategies used by parents to put their children's Background: behaviors under control are called parenting styles, which can be influenced by numerous factors including socio-economic variables, cultural differences, personal characteristics, and psychological factors. These factors can differently contribute to parenting style. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review was to examine psychological factors affecting parenting style.This study was a comprehensive literature review using the Methods: keywords of parenting styles, psychological factors, and parenting to search the databases of Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Scientific Information Database. In this respect, 416 articles were extracted. 368 articles were removed after reviewing their abstracts and full text and eventually 48 articles were selected to elicit the required data.Our findings were classified under two categories: factors related Results: to parents (mental health status, self-efficacy, parenting stress, perfectionism, personality traits, childhood trauma, marital satisfaction, parents' attachment style, perceived parenting style, and substance abuse); and those related to children (child developmental and mental disability, child temperament, and anxiety).Considering the multiple psychological factors that affect Conclusions: parenting style, it is recommended to include an assessment of parent-child psychological status in family health programs in order to identify the needs for health-oriented care and take steps towards the development of parenting skills. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text 5. Milevsky A, Schlechter M, Netter S, et al.: Maternal and paternal parenting styles in adolescents: Associations with self-esteem, depression and lifesatisfaction. J Child Fam Stud. 2007; 16(1): 39-47. Publisher Full Text 6. Maddahi ME, Javidi N, Samadzadeh M, et al.: The Study of relationship between parenting styles and personality dimensions in a sample of college students. Indian J Sci Technol. 2012; 5(9): 3332-3336. Reference Source 7. Tan TX, Camras LA, Deng H, et al.: Family stress, parenting styles, and behavioral adjustment in preschool-age adopted Chinese girls. Early Child Res Q. 2012; 27(1): 128-136. Publisher Full Text 8. Belsky J: The determinants of parenting: a process model. Child Dev. 1984; 55(1): 83-96. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text 9. Onder A, Gulay H: Reliability and validity of parenting styles and dimensions questionnaire. Procedia Soc Behav Sci. 2009; 1(1): 508-514. Publisher Full Text 10. Stith SM, Liu T, Davies LC, et al.: Risk factors in child maltreatment: A metaanalytic review of the literature. Aggress Violent Behav. 2009; 14(1): 13-29. Publisher Full Text 11. Lovejoy MC, Graczyk PA, O'Hare E, et al.: Maternal depression and parenting behavior: a meta-analytic review. Clin Psychol Rev. 2000; 20(5): 561-592. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text 12. Christian VA: Factors that increase successful parenting skills in adult survivors of childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse: a ...

Background: The set of strategies used by parents to put their children’s behaviors under control are called parenting styles, which can be influenced by numerous factors including socio-economic variables, cultural differences, personal characteristics, and psychological factors. These factors can differently contribute to parenting style. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine psychological factors affecting parenting style. Methods: This study was a comprehensive literature review using the keywords of parenting styles, psychological factors, and parenting to search the databases of Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Web of , and Scientific Information Database. In this respect, 416 articles were extracted. 368 articles were removed after reviewing their abstracts and full text and eventually 48 articles were selected to elicit the required data. Results: Our findings were classified under two categories: factors related to parents (mental status, self-efficacy, parenting stress, perfectionism, personality traits, childhood trauma, marital satisfaction, parents’ attachment style, perceived parenting style, and substance abuse); and those related to children (child developmental and mental disability, child temperament, and anxiety). Conclusions: Considering the multiple psychological factors that affect parenting style, it is recommended to include an assessment of parent-child psychological status in family programs in order to identify the needs for -oriented care and take steps towards the development of parenting skills.

This study aimed to investigate the predictive role of parental personality traits on parenting styles.Methods: Using a systematic sampling method, a total number of 617 couples with 6-12 years old child living in northeastern Iran, were recruited. The data were collected via the Robinson Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire, Goldberg's Big-Five Personality Inventory, and a socio-demographic form.Results: Results indicated that (a) in mothers and fathers with increasing the personality traits such as emotional stability, and openness to experience, authoritarianism was decreased and authoritativeness was increased, (b) when mothers and fathers have more conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, permissiveness was decreased, (c) when fathers have more extraversion, and conscientiousness, authoritarianism, and authoritativeness were increased respectively,(d) in mothers with agreeableness and conscientiousness, authoritativeness was shown,(e) in mothers with increasing openness to experience, permissiveness was decreased.Conclusions: This study indicated mother-father differences in personality traits leads to a different typology of parenting styles for their children. Hence, the assessment of parenting styles should be an important focus for evaluation in parents with different personality traits and vice versa, when parental personality traits are investigated, attention to parenting styles should be essential.