The Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Children's Perfectionism in a Sample of Iranian Families

The main objective of the present study was to examine the relationship between three parenting styles inclu-ding authoritative، authoritarian، and permissive on the with dimensions of perfectionism including self-oriented، other-oriented، and sociallly prescrib-ed in a sample of Iranian families. Three hun-dred and forty two students (184 fem-ales، 156 males). from Tehran schools in sectors 8، 10، 11 and 19 in the academic year 2009-2010 along with their parents (342 fathers، 342 mot-hers) were included in this study. Students and their parents were asked to complete the Tehran Multidimen-sional Perfecti-onism Scale (TMPS; Besharat، 2007) and Parental Autho-rity Questionnaire (PAQ; Buri، 1991)، respectively. Analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics in-cluding the mean، standard deviation، Pearson''s correlation coefficient، and regression analysis. Results revealed that only father''s authoritarian style was significantly associated with dim-ensions of perfectionism in children، and father''s authoritative style pre-dicted changes in children''s other-oriented perfectionism. It can be conc-luded that authoritarian style of pare-nting effect on the development of children''s perfectionistic characteris-tics.