The Impact of Parent's Capital on Adolescent's Socialization Styles among Iranian Families (A Case Study Conducted in Karaj)

The present study was carried out in order to systematically determine adolescents’ socialization styles among Iranian families based on their parents’ capital. Socialization styles were operationally defined and assessed with regard to five styles, i.e., authoritarian, democratic, free neglectful, free individualistic, and filocentric. In addition, parents’ capital was defined in terms of four categories, i.e., cultural (institutionalized and objectified), social (cognitive and external structural), political, and economic capital. In this survey research, the instrumentation comprised a self-devised questionnaire which was administered to 490 Karaji adolescents. The questionnaire enjoyed face validity and Cronbach’s alpha was used as a measure of the internal consistency or reliability of the test scores. The findings of the study revealed that parents utilized various socialization styles based on their capital. More specifically, parents’ cultural capital significantly leads to democratic style, whereas parents’ economic capital significantly identifies filocentric and free individualistic styles.