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The role of child's temperament and mother's attachment and parenting styles in predicting behavioral problems of 3-5 year old children with working mothers
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Hajar Yosefi Khanehbargh1    , Ali Zeinali * 2 |
1- Department of Psychology, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
2- Department of Psychology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran |
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Background and Purpose: Children's behavioral problems are common and debilitating problems in children, and investigating them is very important. Therefore, the present research was conducted to determine the role of child's temperament and mother's attachment and parenting styles in predicting behavioral problems of 3-5 year old children with working mothers.
Method: This study was a cross-sectional type of correlation. The research population was working mothers’ with 3-5-year-old children in Urmia city kindergartens in 2021-2022 year with number 353 people that the sample size based on the Krejcie and Morgan table estimated 184 people who were selected by cluster sampling method. The research data were collected with the questionnaires of Revised Temperament (Ellis and Rothbart, 2001), Attachment Style (Hazen and Shaver, 1987), Parenting Styles (Baumrind, 1991), and Behavioral Problems (Rutter, 1976) and were analyzed by methods of Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS software versions 21.
Results: The findings showed that a child's temperament, secure attachment style, and authoritative parenting style had a negative and significant relationship with children's behavioral problems and avoidant; ambivalent insecure attachment styles and authoritarian parenting style had a positive and significant relationship with children's behavioral problems at a level of 0.01; and permissive parenting style had a positive and significant relationship with children's behavioral problems at a level of 0.05. Also, the variables of the child's temperament, attachment style and authoritative and authoritarian mother's parenting style significantly could predict 29 percent of changes in children's behavioral problems (P<0.001).
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the effective role of a child's temperament, attachment style , and authoritative and authoritarian mother's parenting style in predicting the children's behavioral problems. The implications of the obtained results were discussed in the article. |
Article number: 4 |
| Keywords: Child's temperament, attachment style, parenting style, behavioral problems |
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Received: 2023/02/2 | Accepted: 2024/07/9 | Published: 2024/07/30
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