Investigating the Role of Parenting Styles and Adjustment in Predicting Students Membership in Social Networks

With the wide spread of social networking, a lot of students spent a significant part of their daily lives in these networks. It is believed that social networking is one of the reasons for Dropout. Although students are influenced by society but the family and parenting style are affected children's future relationships.
235secondarySchool students from Birjand were selected with random cluster sampling. The Baumrind's parenting styles and Sinha and Singh's adjustment questionnaires also was conducted to collect information. To examine the relationship between variables the Eta test and logistic regression model used to predict the membership and non-membership of students in social networks.
Finding revealed there is no relationship between student membership and achievement. Authoritarian parenting style and student social adjustment are meaningful predictor of student membership in social networks.