Religiosity and Family Educational Style: A study of familial impacts on religious behavior of adolescents in Tehran

Children’s behavior and their personality formation can be influenced by the mode of their interactions with their parents. According to this assumption, it can be said that the method of upbringing in the family plays a determinative role in the formation of religious orientation in children. The principal supposition is that the three authoritative, permissive and authoritarian styles noted by Diana Baumrind (1973) could be significantly related to the extent of adolescents’ religiosity. We have used two documentary and field (survey) research approaches in this article. The reliability has been calculated by Cronbach’s alpha, and there has been added a forth “parents’ modeling” to integrate the Baumrind’s trinary parenting typology. The statistical population is includes the whole high school students of Tehran state schools, which is estimated to be within the range of 325,400 students. However the sample estimation is calculated using Cochran’s sample size formula. The sample size with maximum reliability and minimum error rate is estimated to be 384 students.