Journal of Family Research
Year:2006 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:7

To investigate the influence of parenting style on high school adolescents' adjustment, 272 year three high school students (132 female) were selected using random cluster sampling. They were assigned into 4 groups, based on their answers to the parenting style questionnaire (adopted from Naghashyan, 1979). Authoritative (high in both acceptance and control), Authoritarian (high in control, low in acceptance), permissive (high in acceptance, low in control), and indulgent (low in both acceptance and control) parenting. The high school adolescents' adjustment inventory was completed by participants. The range of alpha Cronbach and test-retest reliability coefficients were from .68 to .85 for both scales.The results showed more. Adjustment for adolescents from authoritative and permissive families, but there was no significant difference between indulgent and authoritarian families. Also, adjustment of adolescents from permissive families was not different from authoritative ones. Girls showed more adjustment than boys. There was no interaction between sex and parenting style.Controls had no significant effect on adolescents' adjustment but the effect of acceptance was significant; that is, the more acceptance, the more adjustment in boys and girls. There was no interaction between sex and variables such as control and acceptance.Findings and their implications for the proper parenting styles and the future research has been discussed.

In this study, the relationship between relational beliefs and irrational expectations of Iranian migrant couples were examined. The sample is composed of 50 Iranian couples (residents of Canada and Australia). Couples were recruited if accessible or volunteered to participate in this research. All the participants completed the following measures: Dyadic Adjustment Scale; Relationship believes Inventory (Epstein, 1992); and Nonlogical Expectation Scale (Sahebi, 2005).The results of this study revealed that marital satisfaction and cognitive variables are correlated. Correlation coefficient between marital satisfaction and the belief "Disagreement is destructive" was 0.42; "mind reading is expected" 0.23, "partner cannot change" 0.59, "Sexual perfectionism" 0.32, and "Innate gender differences account for marital problems" 0.12. Correlation between marital satisfaction and non-logical expectations was 0.25.To assess the contribution of these variables in predicting marital satisfaction's variances, linear regression analysis was applied. Furthermore, to determine the specific contribution of each individual variable, a hierarchical regression analysis carried out, which revealed that cognitive variables are predicting in total 0.44 of marital satisfaction's variance, from which 0.41 of variances is defined by two communication beliefs: "Disagreement is destructive" (0.19) and "partner cannot change" (0.22). The rest of the variables predicted less than 2 percent of the variance. The results of this study have applications in marital education courses and workshops.

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between family function, family conflict, parenting styles, and economic-educational level of family and academic achievement of high school students. A sample of 505 students was randomly (251 female) selected from high schools of Ghom Province. Parents of students were asked to complete the Family Assessment Device, Marital conflict, and Parenting styles. The results revealed that family functioning is significantly related to academic achievement (p=0.03). No significant difference was found between marital conflict and academic achievement. Families with high educational and economic level had significantly children with better involved in academic achievement. Among the family factors, related to academic achievement, the most important one were birth order, mother age, authoritarian mothership style, fathership age, economic level, number of children and authoritarian fathership style which explained significantly the variance of academic achievement respectively.

Objective: the study sought the point of view, attitude and risk factors of domestic violence against women who have experienced it.Method: for the purpose of the study a qualitative method was chosen and two focus group discussions were held by attending 9-10 women from south esteems of Tehran in each session. Data were noted and taped, then coded and results were extracted.Findings: women mentioned three aspects of spouse abuse (sexual, emotional, and physical) and reported that emotional aspect is the most important one. They mentioned that majority of women who experienced spouse abuse have low self-esteem, no family and social support, or they fear facing problems after divorce. They claimed that courts are the most important sources of support for women which now are not acting strong enough.Conclusion: spouse abuse has different aspects and this problem needs multidimensional studies, however the best solution seems to be revising laws in support of women.

Parents have significant role in behavioral interventions in children normal life due to their influence and close contact with them. That is why we increasingly consider the parent management training in treatment of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in recent decades.The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of parent management training according to Iranian culture in Solitary and in Combination with medication in order to decrease the symptoms of ADHD and behavioral problems. Using an experimental design, with pretest and posttest with control group, 28 ADHD subjects were exposed to three kinds of treatment, including drug therapy, 10 Sessions parent management training, and combination of both. Symptoms and behavioral problems were assessed using attention deficit hyperactivity rating scales and Conner's parent rating scales, and parenting characteristic features were assessed by parenting rating scales.Results showed that parent management training would not diminish the base symptoms in behavioral disorder on solitary, but combination of treatment had significant influence on reduction of learning and psycho-somatic problems in children, in comparison with two other treatments.Furthermore, parent management training reduced over-activity and verbosity but it had no significant changes in laxness. Considering recent findings, the intermediator role of co-morbid disorders and parent behavioral changes on parent management training are discussed. Further research is needed to shed light on this role.

The goal of this study was investigate coping strategies and mental health in autistic children mothers. 40 mothers with autistic child were selected from autism center consecutively. Information collected with SCL-90-R and Karror coping strategies checklist. The result showed that 27.5% of the mothers according to SCL-90-R had mental disease. Furthermore, there were not significant relations between problem solving and emotional coping strategies with mental health. However, there was significant relation between less sufficient and none effective coping strategies with mental health.