The Structural Model of Academic Optimism Based on Parenting Styles with the Mediating Role of Parents' Positive Perfectionism in Secondary School Students of Khorramabad City

The purpose of the current research was to investigate the structural relationships between parenting styles and academic optimism with the mediating role of parents' positive perfectionism. The research design is descriptive-correlation and the statistical population includes all the male and female students of the second secondary level of Khorramabad city in the academic year of 1400, which included 19,500 students. Three hundred and seventy seven people were selected using the stratified relative sampling method and based on the Karjesi-Morgan table. The research tools included positive and negative perfectionism questionnaire (Terry Short et al., 1995), Alabama parenting styles child version (Samani, 2010) and academic optimism (Schennen-Moran et al., 2013). Research data analysis was done using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression and structural equation modeling with SPSS-27 and AMOS-24 software. Based on the findings of this study, the proposed model to investigate the causal relationships between research variables had an acceptable fit. The research results showed that parenting styles are directly and indirectly related to academic optimism through parents' positive perfectionism (P<0.05). Also, the results showed that parenting styles had a positive and significant effect on academic optimism and positive perfectionism of students (P<0.05). The effect of positive perfectionism on students' academic optimism was also confirmed (P<0.05). According to the findings of this research, it can be concluded that the model of structural relationships between parenting styles and academic optimism with the mediating role of parents' positive perfectionism has a favorable fit.