A SURVEY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARITAL SATISFACTION AND PARENTING STYLES

One of the important factors that is effective on children's mental behavioral health is parenting style. Several factors influence parenting style such as culture, socioeconomic factors, and marital relationship. In this study we assessed the relationship between marital satisfaction and parenting styles. In this correlation study marital satisfaction and parenting styles questionnaires were filled by 90 mothers of children in Tehran kindergartens. The data were analyzed through Pearson's correlation coefficient. The finding revealed significant reverse relation between authoritarian style and marital satisfaction (p< 0.09). There was no significant relation between authoritative style and marital satisfaction. The results were concurrent with spillover and compensatory hypotheses which showed there was relation between marital satisfactions leading to the positive parenting styles.