Relationship Between Parent's Religious Orientation and Their Parenting Styles with the Children's Mental Well-Being

The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between parents' religious orientation and their parenting styles with the children's mental well-being.

The research method is descriptive-correlational and the statistical population includes all high school female students and their mothers in Tehran’s 20th district of education department. The statistical sample of this study included 200 participants who were obtained by Green's formula and were selected via random cluster sampling. The research instruments include Allport Religious Orientation, Baumrind's Parenting Styles and Keyes, Shmotkin, and Ryff’s mental Well-Being Questionnaires. In this research, statistical methods such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and multivariate regression analysis have been used to analyze the data.

The research findings of this study indicate that the internal religious orientation of the parents, have positive and significant relationship with the positive affective components, the lack of negative affections/ emotions and the overall satisfaction of the life of the children's mental well-being. As well as, the external religious orientation of parents have not significant effects in predicting the components of the children's mental well-being. In parenting style of parents, the authoritative style, the positive affective component, the absence of negative emotions and overall satisfaction of life, predict the children's mental well-being positively. Also, the dictatorial parenting style, the positive affective component, the absence of negative emotions and the overall satisfaction of life, predict the children's mental well-being negatively. But the permissive parenting style did not predict any components of the children's well-being, significantly.

The authors of the survey concluded that the internal religious orientations of the parents and their authoritative style have positive relationship with the children's mental well-being.