Designing a Model of Girls’ Flourishing Based on Mothers’ Characterial Abilities with the Mediating Role of Parenting Methods

Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy

Zahra Mahmoodi ¹ , Forough Jafari ² , kiyanoosh Zahrakar ³ , Rozita Zabihi ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran Branch of Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Consultant. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assistant professor, Department of Psychologi, Faculty of Education and Psychology Science, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran

Received: 2020-10-22 Accepted : 2020-12-08 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: Parenting styles, character strengths, Flourish,

Abstract :

Purpose: The aim of this study was to design a structural model of mothers’ characterial abilities and daughters’ flourishing with the mediating role of parenting styles. Method: The research was descriptive-correlative in terms of applied purpose and research design. The statistical population of this study was all female students in the second year of urban high school in the academic year of 1997-98 along with their mothers. 465 students and their mothers were selected by stepwise cluster sampling method. In order to measure the variables, three questionnaires of Soleimani et al. (2015), characterial Patterson and Seligman (2004) abilities and parenting methods with Marind (1991) were used. Findings: The results showed that the abilities of originality, intellectualism, beauty admiration and appreciation of mothers have a direct effect on the prosperity of girls as well as the abilities of kindness, social intelligence, fairness, leadership, self-regulation on parenting style. Examining the direct effect of mothers’ parenting style on girls’ flourishing shows that mothers’ careless and authoritarian parenting style has no significant effect on girls’ flourishing, but mothers 'decisive parenting style has a direct effect on girls’ flourishing. The results of the study confirmed the indirect effect of kindness, social intelligence and leadership abilities on the flourishing of parenting style. Conclusion: Strengthening and applying meaningful characterial competencies in mothers, both directly and indirectly, through the effect it has on the style of parenting can definitely promote the prosperity of their daughters