The Relationship Between Helicopter Parentings Style and Academic Performance in Students: The Mediating Role of Self-Control

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between helicopter parenting and academic performance of female students. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlational.The statistical population of the present study included all female high school students in Rey city of Tehran province in the academic year 1399-1399 that 357 of them were selected by available sampling method. The research instruments included Kendall and Wilcox self-control questionnaire, Limvin and Bachchanan helicopter parenting questionnaire and Pham and Taylor academic performance questionnaire. Based on structural equation modeling, the mediating role of self-control in the relationship between helicopter parenting and academic performance was confirmed. Pearson correlation test also showed that there is a negative relationship between helicopter parenting and self-control, a positive relationship between self-control and academic performance, and a negative relationship between helicopter parenting and academic performance. Therefore, it is suggested that mental health and education professionals pay special attention to the role of helicopter parenting and self-control to improve academic performance.