The relationship between Helicopter Parenting and Students' Academic Vitality: The mediating role of Perfectionism

The purpose of the current study was to study the mediating role of perfectionism in the relationship between helicopter parenting and students' academic vitality. The research method was descriptive -correlation. Samples of this study were all the students of Eslamshahr University in the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021, and among them, 220 students were selected as samples by Purposive sampling. Research questionnaires included: the academic vitality questionnaire of Dehghanizadeh and Hossein Chari (AB, Dehghanizadeh and Hossein Chari, 2012), the perfectionism questionnaire of Frost et al. (FMP, Frost et al, 1990), and the helicopter parenting questionnaire of Limvin and Bachatan (HP, Limvin and Bachatan, 2011). For analyzing data we used the Pearson correlation test and path analysis. Findings showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between perfectionism and helicopter parenting with academic vitality(P<0.001). Also, the results showed helicopter parenting y had a negative and significant indirect effect role on students' academic vitality(P<0.001). The results showed that the research model provided the optimal fit to the data. Considering the effect of helicopter parenting and perfectionism on students' academic lives, it is suggested to focus on these two variables and increase parents' awareness of the effect of these variables on their children by holding courses and workshops for them.