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

Yosefi Khanehbargh, Hajar; Zeinali, Ali

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Volume 11, Issue 1 (Vol11 No1 Spring 2024- 2024)

J Child Ment Health 2024, 11(1): 47-61

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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

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

Abstract: (964 Views)

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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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2023/02/2 | Accepted: 2024/07/10 | Published: 2024/07/30

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