The Causal Relationship of Conceiving Parenting Styles and Religious Orientation with the Mediation of the Functions of Girl Students' Thinking Styles

This correlational research was conducted with the purpose of investigating the causal relationship of conceiving parenting styles and religious orientation with the mediation of the functions of thinking styles with a quasi-experimental method. The population was all undergraduate girl students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and 250 girls were randomly selected as the sample. The data were gathered with Baumrind's parenting styles questionnaire, Allport's and Figen's religious orientation scale, and Strenberg's and Wagner's thinking styles questionnaire. The results showed that according to the fit indices, there is an appropriate fit of the model test. The results of bootstrap test were meaningful for the path of authoritarian parenting style to internal religion through the mediation of judicial thinking style. Moreover, authoritarian parenting style has a positive and significant effect on both judicial thinking style and executive thinking style. Careless parenting style has a negative effect on executive thinking style, and autocratic parenting style has a positive effect on executive thinking style. In addition, careless parenting style has a positive effect on external religion, legal thinking style has a negative effect on internal religion, and judicial thinking style has a positive effect on internal religion. Therefore, it can be said that authoritarian parenting style influences the choice of children's thinking style and causes the internalization of religious values and knowledge.