Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

Abstract

Objectives:The primary goal of this study was to identify the determinants of mother's authoritative parenting style upon the ecological model of parenting. There are some factors involved in this model such as a parent (i.e. developmental history, personality), and child characteristics (i.e. temperament and developmental issues) and environmental factors. Methods:The statistic population of this study includes mothers in Tehran having preschool children between 4-6 years old. By convenient sampling, eight kindergarten schools were selected, and mothers completed the questionnaires. The sample consisted of 157 mothers who had the authoritative parenting style based on the score of Baumrind's parenting style questionnaire. The participants completed the questionnaires and data was analyzed with regression analysis.Results: The parent's neuroticism (r=-0.253, P<0.01), social support (r=-0.200, P<0.05) and some temperamental characteristics of child i.e. excitability (r=-0.526, P<0.01) and activity (r=-0.163, P<0.05) were significant variables in prediction of authoritative parenting style.Discussion: This study enhances our understanding of the primary determinants of authoritative parenting style in Iranian mothers. The authoritative parenting style is a function of interactional mother and child characteristic and contextual components. These parents had a low score on neuroticism. Therefore, they had emotional stability and could manage their impulse and negative emotions about child maltreatment. Also, their children had low scores in excitability and a high score in sociability. Additionally, the authoritative mothers had weak social support. One explanation for this result is that mothers are the autonomy people and stand on their own rules and had little need to others.

Mediating roles of character traits and parenting in the relationship between maternal effortful control and children’s conduct problems

“…High self-directedness was also found to be associated with more authoritative and caring parenting ( Kitamura et al, 2009 ; Zohar, Lev Ari & Bachner-Melman, 2018 ). Similar findings were found regarding conscientiousness; it was found to be related to maternal warmth ( Zhang et al, 2019 ) and to more authoritative parenting style ( Bahrami et al, 2018 ; Sahithya & Raman, 2021 ).…”

“…The empirical findings linking agreeableness to parental practice are even better established. Agreeableness is correlated positively with adaptive practices such as warmth, autonomy support ( de Haan, Deković & Prinzie, 2012 ; see meta-analysis by Prinzie et al (2009) ), and with more adaptive parenting style ( Bahrami et al, 2018 ; Sahithya & Raman, 2021 ), and negatively correlated with maladaptive practices such as erratic, harsh, and over-reactive ( e.g ., screaming or yelling) practices ( de Haan, Prinzie & Deković, 2009 ; de Haan, Deković & Prinzie, 2012 ).…”

Psychological impact of parent-adolescent communication: A critical analysis

“…Concerning, authoritarian parenting style, parents tend to heavily rely on discipline and conformity of their children and tend to use a monitoring method on them. These parents adopt the child's uniqueness and allow evolution and decision making but firmly set principles and expectations on their children while showing fondness and love [8]. This kind of children tend to become more well-adjusted and confident.…”

“…They will be more available to open up their state of mind when necessary and discuss their struggles with their parents in a more passive mode [9]. Indulgent parenting style, on the other hand, does not have any expectations of their children and have less requests from them [8]. Thus, this could sometimes lead to adolescents having to make their own decision freely as there is hardly anyone to confide or the autonomous decision making is given to them [9].…”