The relationship between parenting style and mental health

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to consider a relationship between parenting style with the students` mental health in counseling major of Azad University of Abharin the academic year 2014 and 2015. Statistical sample of this research includes the student of Azad University of Abhar, a sample with volume of 100 people selected in random and cluster sample. The research plan is study type of surveying and measurement tools include 2 educational styles questionnaire (parenting) with 30 articles that answered by parents and Goldberg`s general health questionnaire was answered by the students. The aim of this research is to determine the existence or non-existence of the relationship between parents` parenting styles and children`s mental health. To achieve the above goal, three hypotheses have been provided that includes:1) there is a correlation between authoritarian educational styles and mental health.2) There is a correlation between strict educational styles and mental health.3) There is a correlation between permissive educational styles and mental health. To analyze the data in SPSS software program, it’s used of Pierson correlation method. The obtained results are as follows: 1) first hypothesis was confirmed with the correlation coefficient r = 306 at the level of 1% and 99% confidence. 2) Second hypothesis with correlation coefficient r = 131 at the level of 1% with 95% confidence has relationship but this relationship is reverse and stands in the positive direction and leads to the reduction of children`s mental health. According to the correlation calculations of the authoritarian educational style as the best fitted the pattern is introduced to predict mental health.