Investigating the Effect of Parenting Styles on the Tendency of High-Risk Behavior: the Mediating Role of Time Perspective

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student in Educational Psychology, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran *Corresponding Author: sotodeh1@yahoo.com https://orcid.org /0000-0001-5036-3983

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran https://orcid.org /0000-0001-7030-5895

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran https://orcid.org /0000-0002-2501-3583

10.22098/jpc.2023.12138.1149

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effect of parenting styles on the tendency to risky behavior concerning the mediating role of time perspective. The present study was a descriptive survey in terms of nature, application, and quantitative type and terms of process and method of data collection and analysis. data analysis method, descriptive structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study is all female high school students in Tehran in the year 2019-2020 of 251,000 females. The sample was selected using Cochran's formula and consisted of 383 people who were selected using cluster random sampling. To collect data, Buri Perceived Parenting Questionnaire (1991), the Zimbardo Time Vision Questionnaire (1999), and Zadeh Mohammadi et al Iranian Adolescents' Risk Scale (2011) Questionnaire were used. The results indicate that parenting style has a positive and significant effect on the tendency toward high-risk behavior at a significant level (0.05); the Tendency to high-risk behavior based on parenting style is indirectly related to time perspective mediation at a significant level (0.05). The results showed how interpersonal factors affect the tendency to various high-risk behaviors in adolescents and parenting style protects adolescents against high-risk behaviors.

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