Relationship between parenting styles with emotional maturity and Alexithymia in adolescent girls
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychologyمسعود حجازی 1 , Parvin Shajari 2
1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد زنجان- گروه روانشناسی
2 - Azad University of Zanjan Branch - Department of Psychology
Keywords: alexithymia, Parenting styles, Emotional puberty,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parental parenting styles with emotional maturity and Alexithymia. The research method was correlational and the target population was all-female high school students in Zanjan, in the academic year of 1395-96, and their parents, among whom 200 were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. They were the data collection tool included the scale of Bamerand child-rearing styles, the emotional adolescence of Singh et al. And the Alexithymia of Toronto's nougat. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the easy parenting style and emotional insecurity, personality disintegration as well as a general score of emotional immaturity (p < 0.05). There was a positive and significant relationship between descriptive childbearing style and difficult component in descriptive sensation (p < 0.05). There was also a negative and inverse relationship between the authoritative style and the overall Alexithymia and all components (p < 0.05). The results of multiple regression tests showed that facilitation style could explain emotional instability, personality decay and emotional immaturity with 24.8%, 19.2% and 24.4% of their total variance, respectively. Also, the powerful style could predict the components of difficulty in emotion recognition, difficulty in describing emotions and Alexithymia (total score) by 20.6%, 22.9% and 16.4%, respectively (p < 0.05). Finally, in only one case did the authoritarian style explain the difficulty in describing the emotions by 16.9% (p < 0.05). Finally, according to the results of the study, the correction of parental styles in parents is suggested using educational and therapeutic interventions.
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