The relationship between perceived parenting styles and academic procrastination and fear of success

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived parenting styles and academic procrastination and fear of success of girl students of district 1 of Tehran city. The study method is descriptive-correlation. The study population is all the girl students of third of high school of state schools of district 1 of Tehran city in academic year 2013-2014. The sampling is multi-stage cluster and 331 subjects are selected by Kerjeci-Morgan Table. The study measures are Baumrind parenting style (PAQ), academic procrastination questionnaire of Solomon & Rothblum (1984) and fear of success of Zuckerman.M. Allison. Descriptive statistics including central measures, dispersion and inference statistics including Pearson correlation coefficient and multi- variate regression are used for data analysis. The results of hypotheses test showed that there was a positive and significant relation between perceived permissive and authoritarian parenting styles and academic procrastination. Also, there was a significant association between perceived authoritarian parenting styles and fear of success. There was no relation between perceived permissive parenting style and fear of success. The results of regression analysis showed that authoritarian parenting style with coefficient 0.20 and permissive with coefficient 0.15 can predict procrastination. Also, authoritarian parenting style with coefficient 0.34 and permissive with 0.21 have share in prediction of fear of success. There was no relation between authoritative parenting style and academic procrastination and authoritative parenting styles and fear of success.