The Role of Parenting Styles in Children Self Formation and Self-Discrepancy

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship and predict-tability of parenting styles in the for-mation of real-self, ideal-self, and ought-self, as well as the actual-ideal (AI) discrepancy and actual-ought (AO) discrepancy in male and female university students. 263 students (127 females) were chosen using accessible sampling and completed questionnaires of parenting styles scale and self-discrepancy. Results reveal that there was a signif-icant relationship between different types of self scores and the dime-nsions of warmth and rejection, as well as freedom and control. Regr-ession analysis shows that author-itarian and neglecting parenting styles are more likely to predict the types of selves and their discrepancies. The correlation between real and ideal self-formation was negative. It is also revealed that there is a negative relationship between ought-self and authoritarian parenting style while a positive relationship is found between ought-self and neglecting parenting styles. Furthermore, the authoritarian parenting style can predict AI and AO discrepancies in negative and positive modes, respectively. The quality of relationships, especially parent-child relationships and the role of parenting styles on self-formation based on sociability process, are then discussed.