Predicting the Level of Academic Success of Students Based on Their Parents' Parenting Style with the Mediation of Self-Efficacy and Self-Respect in Primary School Children

Academic success of students, as an efficient group and future builders of the country, is one of the important factors of their long-term professional and social progress and development in life. Thus, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the academic success of students based on the parenting style of their parents, with the mediation of self-efficacy and self-esteem in children.

The present research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of data collection method, which was conducted using structural equation modeling method. The statistical population of this research included all elementary school boys in the 12th district of Tehran in the academic year 1401-1402, from which 300 people were selected according to the entry and exit criteria. Data collection tools included Academic Success Scale (Salehi, 2013), Parenting styles questionnaire (Bamrind, 1991), Self-efficacy questionnaire for Children (Morris, 2001) and Self-esteem inventories (Coppersmith, 1981). Finally, the data were analyzed using the correlation research method and the structural equation model method using SPSS26 and AMOS24 software.

The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between permissive and authoritarian parenting style with self-esteem and academic success, and there is a positive and significant relationship between authoritarian parenting style with self-efficacy, self-esteem and academic success (P<0.05). Also, a positive and significant relationship was observed between self-efficacy and self-esteem with academic success (P<0.05). The results showed that the indirect effect of permissive and authoritarian parenting styles on academic success through self-efficacy and the indirect effect of authoritarian parenting style on academic success through self-esteem were statistically significant (P<0.05).

Based on the results obtained in this study, it can be said that by improving self-efficacy and self-esteem skills, the relationship between parenting style and academic success of primary school students can be indirectly strengthened.