Predicting children's marital satisfaction in terms of parenting styles

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and children's marital satisfaction. Two hundred and seventeen (123 women, 94 men) married participants completed Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) and the Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State Questionnaire (GRIMS). The results indicated that the authoritative and permissive parenting styles had a positive significant association with marital satisfaction of the children, whereas the authoritarian style used by parents had a negative significant association with their offspring's marital satisfaction. According to the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that the levels of children’s marital satisfaction are possibly influenced by the parenting styles of their parents.