Development of a Causal Model of Social, Academic and Emotional Risk-Taking Based on Parenting Styles, Excitement, Stress Coping Styles Mediated by Academic Skills in Students with High-Risk Behaviors

The aim of this study was to develop a causal model of social, academic and emotional risk-taking based on parenting styles, excitement, coping styles with mediation of academic skills in students with high-risk behaviors. Took.

The method of this research is descriptive-correlational and especially structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study was all male and female high school students in the city of Karaj in the academic year 2019-2020, from which 300 people were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. To collect data from the high-risk behaviors questionnaire of Mohammadi et al. (2011), social, educational and emotional risk-taking behaviors of Kilgus et al. (2014), Bamrind (1991) parenting styles, coping styles Andler and Parker Stress (1990); The Excitement of Zuckerman et al. (1981); Academic skills of Shabani et al. (2015) were used. Data were analyzed by structural equation analysis and statistical software SPSS and AMOS software version 24.

The results showed that the proposed model had a good fit. Parenting practices, excitement, and coping strategies are directly related to social, academic, and emotional risk-taking. Parenting practices, excitement, and coping strategies are indirectly related to social, academic, and emotional risk-taking through the variable of academic skills.

Findings consistent with the conceptual model suggest that parenting styles, excitement, and stress coping strategies are indirectly related to risky behaviors through academic skills. Also, another part of the findings showed that parenting practices, excitement and coping strategies are indirectly related to risk-taking through the variable of academic skills. These results have theoretical and practical applications in designing prevention programs about students' risk-taking that should be considered.