Relation between Parenting Style of Primary School Age Children and their Psychosocial Behaviors

 Parenting style has a great effect on psychosocial behaviors of the school age children. Aim: to 
assess the relation between parenting style of primary school age children and their psychosocial 
behaviors. Design: a descriptive cross-sectional study design. Settings: conducted in two medical 
centers and five Maternal and Child Health (MCH) centers at Tanta city, El Gharbia Governorate. 
Subjects: a number of 300 mothers with their primary school children were selected randomly from 
the previous settings. Tool of the study: A structured interview schedule was used to obtain the 
necessary data for the study. It consists of four parts as following: Part (1): a) Socio-demographic 
characteristics of parents. b) Socio-demographic characteristics of child. Part (II): Parenting Styles 
and Dimensions Questionnaire short version. Part (III): The Home and Community Social Behavior 
Scales (HCSBS). Part (IV): The Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale (SCWBS). Results: It was 
found that authoritative parenting style was highly used by almost the majority (89.3%) of the 
studied parents. The authoritarian parenting style was moderately used by more than half (57.0%) of 
the studied parents. The permissive parenting style was moderately used by more than two fifths 
(45%) of them. There was a positive statistically significant correlation between total score of 
authoritative parenting style and total score of social and psychological behavior (p <0.001). While, 
there was a negative statistically significant correlation between the total score of authoritarian 
parenting style and the total score of social and psychological behavior (p=0.005 and p<0.00) 
respectively and there was a negative statistically significant correlation between the total score of 
permissive parenting style and total score of social and psychological behavior of their children 
(p<0.001). Conclusion: There was a positive statistically significant relation between authoritative 
parenting style and social and psychological behavior of their primary school age children. 
Conversely, there was a statistically significant negative relation between authoritarian and 
permissive parenting style and social and psychological behavior of their primary school age 
children. Recommendations: The community health nurse should provide health education for 
parents on parenting skills and effect on psychological wellbeing of their children.