The Study of Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Externalizing Symptoms in 7 to 9 Year Old Children

The aim of this study was to investi-gate the relationship between pare-nting styles including authoritarian, authoritative and permissive styles) and child behavioural disorder that have conceptualized as externalizing symptoms (aggressive and role broken behaviour).273 mothers of 7-9 years old boys fro-m primary schools participated in this study.Results indicated that permissive par-enting style had significant positive correlation with externalizing sympt-oms. In contrast, authoritative style ha-d significant negative correlation with this symptoms. No relation was found between authoritarian parenting style and externalizing symptoms.