Farangis Ghanbarpour, Mohammadali Ahmadvand‎

Abstract

The purpose of present research was to explain the relationship between perceived parenting ‎styles and mental health of high school girls. The method of present research was descriptive of ‎correlation type. The statistical population of research included high school girl students in the ‎‎18th and 19th districts of Tehran in the academic year 2017-2018, and 229 people were selected ‎as samples using multistage cluster sampling method and simple random sampling method. In ‎order to collect data, three valid and reliable scales including Parenting Styles Questionnaire of ‎Robinson, Mandelco, Alsen and Hart (2001), and Mental Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and ‎Hiller (1979) were used. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and ‎multiple regression analysis. The findings showed that there was a significant positive ‎relationship between perceived authoritarian parenting style and mental health. One of the ‎factors affecting mental health is family. The styles parents use to raise their children have an ‎important role in their children's mental health. It seems that adolescents and young people in ‎families with authoritarian parenting style are self-relying, calm and hopeful, and their ‎personal identity is not harmed. Moreover, this style seems to be accompanied with greater ‎attachment to the parents, especially in childhood, and a greater sense of satisfaction with life, ‎and provides the context for feeling more valuable and self-esteem of the adolescents, and thus ‎a more favorable mental health status‎‎‎.