Investigating the Role of Parenting Styles in Predicting Students' Academic Procrastination

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

2 MA. of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

Abstract

Objective:The purpose of this study was to investigation the role of parenting styles in predicting academic procrastination of female that in high school degree students in city of Ardabil.
Methods:The research method was statistical and correlating and included all high school students who were studying in 2021 and it choose randomly 50 sample of female students were selected by convenience sampling. The tools of this article are Baum rind Thorpe, Clark, & Knicks 1939 parenting style questionnaire and the Solomon and Roth Bloom 1984 academic procrastination questionnaire.
Results:The results showed that in parenting styles, authoritarian style (R = 0.180) at the level (P <0.05) has a positive and significant relationship with academic procrastination, also negative and significant relationship between authoritative parenting style (R= -0.320) at the level (P <0.01) and academic procrastination. Also, the results of regression analysis showed that among the predictor variable of parenting styles, authoritative style (Beta = -0.320) can predict students' academic procrastination.
Conclusion:This study can be inferred that parenting styles have a significant relationship with academic procrastination.

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