Arts & Humanities Journal

Title: Examination the role of parenting styles and parental behavior in predicting early maladaptive schemas in the junior high school students in Kermanshah in academic year 2014-2015

Abstract:

Parents are usually the first people who interact with the child. What is the relationship between parents and their children more than they affect the incidence of mental health problems, the perception of parents with their children. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of perceived parenting style and parental behavior in predicting early maladaptive schemas of female students in Kermanshah .Early maladaptive schemas are long-term and fixed issues that arise in childhood and affect the person and cause fatigue failure in personal and social life. The aim of this study was to examine the role of parenting styles and parental behavior in predicting early maladaptive schemas in female students in Kermanshah. The research was a descriptive-correlational study and population consisted of all high school students in Havanirooz area, Kermanshah. The sample size was 102 using Morgan table. Convenience sampling was used to determine the sample. Data was obtained usingYung's (1990) questioannire of maladaptive schemas, Bamrind's (1972) questionnaire of parents' parenting styles and Parker, Trypling and Brown's questionnaire of parental communication tool. Data was analyzed using Masir, multiple regressions and Pearson's correlation approaches. The results showed a reverse correlation between early maladaptive schemas and parents' authoritative style, but there was not a significant relationship between the other parenting styles with early maladaptive schemas. There was a direct relationship between early maladaptive schemas and extrem support style of parents. The regression results indicated that authoritative and authoritarian styles and mother extrem support explain 37.8 variance of basic maladaptive schema.