Relationship between perceived parenting practices and maternal-paternal trait anxiety with young adults' anxiety

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Khalil Esmaeilpour ¹ , Leili Jamil ²

1 - استادیار دانشکده روان‌شناسی دانشگاه تبریز (نویسنده مسئول)،
2 - فارغ التحصیل روانشناسی بالینی دانشگاه تبریز

Received: 2013-07-20 Accepted : 2013-12-14 Published : 2014-05-22

Keywords: Perceived parenting practices, trait anxiety, children anxiety, parents' anxiety,

Abstract :

The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between perceived parenting practices and maternal-paternal trait anxiety with young adults' anxiety. To do so, 100 (50 female and 50 male) local students of Tabriz Public, and Azad Universities were selected through volunteer sampling. Since parents were needed to fill questionnaires, the sample was selected among local students. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI; Spiel Berger, Gorsuch and Lushene, 1970) was used to measure parents and children's trait anxiety, and Children's Report of Parenting Behavior Inventory (CRPBI; Schaefer, 1965) was used for assessing children's perceptions of parenting practices. Data were analyzed through correlation and multiple regression methods. The results showed that there was positive, significant relationship between parents and children's anxiety. Also there was significant relationship between children's perceptions of parenting practices and offspring's anxiety, so that children's perception of accepting and over-controlling parenting, respectively, had negative and positive relationships with children's anxiety. Based on the results, it was concluded that parents with high anxiety and children's perception of parenting practices have incredible role in children's trait anxiety. Therefore, by training appropriate parenting practices to parents and reducing parents' anxiety the offspring's anxiety and its harmful traces could be reduced.  

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