Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers (original) (raw)

Research Paper: Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

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.

The style of mothering and its determinants: a study among mothers of lower primary school children

International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2019

Background: The first teacher and everlasting support for a child is his/her mother. Mother–child bonds remain so strongly throughout one’s life in spite of the changing times and complexities of life. Literature suggests that elements of warmth and control from parents, especially mothers positively correlated with achievement and intellectual orientation in children. Objectives were to assess the various styles of mothering and its determinants in mothers of children studying in lower primary schools and residing in Adat panchayat, Thrissur, Kerala.Methods: A community based descriptive study was conducted among 315 mothers of lower primary school children residing in Adat panchayat, Thrissur. Data was collected using Parental Authority Questionnaire.Results: Mean age of mothers was 31.9 years. 73% mothers were practicing predominantly authoritative parenting style, 24% were authoritarian and only 3% were permissive style. The type of family and current age of mothers were signifi...

Patterns of Maternal Behavior--Revisited

1987

This study was designed to look for patterns of parental behavior by assessing styles of child rearing in a novel way--through responses on an interactive computer program simulating an average day in the life of a mother and a preschooler, Presented to each subject (39 mothers of preschoolers and a control group of non-mothers) were 30 common child rearing problems to which Subjects selected a response. Response options were designed to reflect authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved patterns. Nulliparous women responded to a fictive child, described to half the group as male. No consistent patterns of responses were subsequently detected: both mothers and non-mothers selected responses characteristic of the three basic child rearing patterns, often in equal proportions. Mothers responded differently from non-mothers on one-third of the questions. Results indicate that a simple typology of parental behavior may be inaccurate and suggest that parental behavior is flexible and modifiable, and that differences in maternal styles of child rearing are more subtle than had previously been described in the literature. (RH)

Child’s Developmental Behavior According to Parent’s Parenting Style: A Phenomenological Approach

Augdya Ayu, augdya.ayu-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Shuci Rachmawati, shuci.rachmawati-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Nabilla Nur Galaxy, nabilla.nurgalaxy-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Gisella Nadia Arsita, gisella.nadia-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Dila Handa Praningtyas, dila.handa-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Rayvina, rayvina-12@psikologi.unair.ac.id Cholicul Hadi, cholichul.hadi@psikologi.unair.ac.id Faculty of Psychology Airlangga University Abstract Each child will develop continuously. In development, the child would require attention and appropriate parenting from parents. Therefore, parents have an important role in the development of their children's behavior.The role of parents is evident from parenting styles applied to children in everyday life. Appropriate parenting style leads to the development of the child in accordance with the desired, including increased self-esteem, sense of responsibility, the motivation to fulfill a purpose, and the emergence of the ability to establish friendships. In the study we wanted to see how important form of care given to children using a phenomenological approach. Parenting on child will have a great impact on the development of children's behavior. As with DHP, where the effects of parenting tends to rule will result in the behavior of children who like the same force with the mother. After DHP aware of changes in their behavior, so he decided to change the parenting. DHP closer to the child and try to become the closest friends child so that the child becomes comfortable to tell. Keywords: child developmental behaviour, authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting

Ecological Predictors of the Parenting Behaviour of Malay Mothers

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & …, 1996

Objektif utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti faktor yang berkaitan dengan kualiti tingkah laku keibubapaan di kalangan ibu Melayu. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 128 ibu Melayu bersama anak mereka yang berumur di anrara 8 hingga 9 tahun, yang telah dipilih secara persampelan sistematik untuk kajian ini. Data telah dikumpulkan secara temubual dan pemerhatian di rumah respond en. Kualiti tingkah laku keibubapaan telah diukur menggunakan 'Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) (Caldwell dan Bradley 1984). Hasil kajian menunjukkan terdapat perkaitan di antara ciri ibu, ciri anak dan faktor kontekstual dengan tingkah laku keibubapaan ibu Melayu. lbu yang mempunyai tahap pendidikan, penghargaan kendiri dan pendapatan keluarga yang lebih tinggi menunjukkan tingkah laku keibubapaan yang lebih berkualiti berbanding dengan ibu lain dalam kajian. Walau bagaimanapun, ibu yang mempunyai bilangan anak yang ramai dan mempunyai persepsi bahawa anak sukar untuk dijaga menunjukkan tingkah laku keibubapaan yang kurang menyokong. Hasil daripada kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa pelbagai faktor dalam ekologi keluarga bergabung untuk mempengaruhi kualiti penjagaan ibubapa terhadap anak. Hasil kajian ini mempunyai implikasi penting untuk perancangan program keibubapaan dan pendidikan kehidupan keluarga.

Parenting: Types, Effects and Cultural Variation

Studies have been coming out exploring different aspects of parenting and how the child has been shaped by parenting. Parenting is the emotional tone between parent and child. It is usually conceptualized by two dimensions, namely demandingness and responsiveness. Based on these dimensions, parenting has been conceptualized in four types mentioned as authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful. Parenting has immediate as well as enduring effects on a child's behavioral, emotional, personal, and cognitive development. However, parenting is deeply influenced by the culture which decides the limits of behavior that to be controlled and praised. This narrative review was aimed to discuss the dimensions, types, effect of parenting style on the child's development, and cultural variation of it.