The effect of parent-child relationship styles on the social adjustment of the adolescent girls

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the social adjustment in balanced and non-balanced patterns of the parent-child relationship. The research population was all female gifted students in the Farzanegan high school in the first educational district of Tehran in 2013-14. The sample research included 96 female gifted students who answered the parent-child relationship model questionnaire and the social adjustment subscale of the Bell adjustment inventory. After scoring their responses and removing uncompleted ones, Sample population was divided into three groups of: the balanced, the non-balances liberal based, and the non-balanced secure-based patterns of parent-child relationship. Data were analyzed by the SPSS using one-way ANOVA.The results showed that the mother-child pattern of the relationship influenced on the child’s social adjustment, while there was no significant influence for the father-child pattern of the relationship. It should be taken into account that the results of this study shows the social adjustment in young ages and before being independent from the family, but the secure-based pattern essentially does not train individuals with high social adjustment.