Fatemeh Fooladi; Hossien PourPshahriar; Sara Ebrahimi
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Introduction Helicopter parenting is a unique form of parenting style that is generally described as highly intensive and highly involved with the children. A particular parenting style influences all phases of the development and lifestyle of adolescents. Helicopter parents overly protect their children ...
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Introduction Helicopter parenting is a unique form of parenting style that is generally described as highly intensive and highly involved with the children. A particular parenting style influences all phases of the development and lifestyle of adolescents. Helicopter parents overly protect their children from difficulties by setting some set of instructions without consideration of the uniqueness of their children. Recent literature has gotten huge attention on this parenting style and debating the pros and cons of the development of the child. Higher life satisfaction and better psychological well-being have been found in children of highly intrusive parents. When there are positive effects of helicopter parenting, there are negative outcomes and impacts that have also been studied. The difficulties in emotional regulation, academic productivity, and social skills among children raised by helicopter parenting have been reported in the literature. Low self-efficacy, lack of trust in peers, and alienation from peers has also been associated with helicopter parenting. So, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric adequacy of the perception of helicopter parenting instruments. MethodThe study population included all adolescent girls in Kerman in 1400. To collect samples, 422 of them in the age group of 18 to 15 years were selected by snowball sampling method. In the present correlation study, Adolescents responded to the 10-item helicopter parenting instrument with Pistella, Izzo, Isolani, Ioverno, and Baiocco (2020) and the 44-item Leung and Shek (2018) over parenting scale. To determine the validity coefficient of the helicopter parenting instrument from exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and to check its internal consistency from Cronbach's alpha coefficient by SPSS and Amos 24 was used. Also, to study the validity of the structure of the helicopter parenting instrument, its correlation coefficient with the over-parenting scale was reported. ResultsThe results of principal component analysis (PC) and varimax rotation replicated 2-factor structures: mental engagement & practical engagement in the Iranian samples. Indicators of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the two-factor structure of the instrument has an acceptable fit with the data and the model is approved. Correlational analyses between the perception of the helicopter parenting instrument's factors and with overparenting scale's factors provided initial evidence for the perception of helicopter parenting instrument convergent validity. internal consistency for the perception of helicopter parenting instrument's factors was desirable (a=0.85). ConclusionIn sum, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the perception of helicopter parenting instrument as an instrument to assess the helicopter parenting instrument among Iranian samples. The application of this tool at the level due to the influence of culture requires standardization at large levels and in different social contexts. Overall, the findings of the present study show that the Persian version of the perception of helicopter parenting instrument as a multidimensional self-report tool in the field of parenting studies, in terms of psychometrics to measure the multiple dimensions of helicopter parenting in Iranian girls’ adolescents, is an accurate and reliable tool. Ease of use, brevity, and evaluation of two important factors of parenting are its strengths
Mahshad Balali Dehkordi; Hossein Pourshahriar; Zahra Jahanbakhshi
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IntroductionIn the present age, each person experiences a variety of individual and social limitations in his life, and dealing with these obstacles provides the ground for the occurrence of many failures and frustrations;This problem is more pronounced in children, because in childhood, more communication ...
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IntroductionIn the present age, each person experiences a variety of individual and social limitations in his life, and dealing with these obstacles provides the ground for the occurrence of many failures and frustrations;This problem is more pronounced in children, because in childhood, more communication with peers and less dependence on parents, this period is referred to as a stressful period. Accordingly, if a person can go through the process of socialization properly and align his needs with the needs of the society in which he lives, he will somehow reach social adequacy. in today's world more than ever require social flexibility and adaptation, which plays an important role in improving the health of people's lives.the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the social adjustment of primary school children based on marital conflicts and cognitive emotion regulation skills of mothers.MethodThe method of this study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included mothers who had primary school children in the fall of 2021 in Shahrekord; A sample of 377 of them was selected by available methods. Data were collected using questionnaires of the California Scale of Social Adjustment (1953), Sanaei Marital Conflicts (2000) and Garnfsky Cognitive Emotion Regulation (2006) and analyzed by multiple regression and Pearson correlation coefficient.ResultsFindings showed a negative and significant relationship between marital conflict and negative emotion regulation skills (P <0.01) and a positive and significant relationship between positive emotion regulation skills and social adjustment of primary school children (P <0.01).DiscussionThe findings generally indicate that the existence of marital conflicts between parents and difficulties in the cognitive regulation of emotions can cause social maladaptation of children in primary school.Keywords: Children's social adjustment, Marital conflicts, Cognitive emotion regulation skills.Author Contributions: In the present study, the second author, as a supervisor, has supervised and strategized the overall research process and compiled and finalized the corrections of the article. In compiling the research plan, the first author is responsible for the process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting the findings and writing the text of the article. The title of thesis advisor was done.Acknowledgments: The present study would not have been possible without the cooperation of the participants; We would like to thank all the participants. Conflicts of interest: The authors acknowledge that there is no conflict of interest in this article.Funding: The present study has not received financial support from any institution or institution and all costs during the research process have been borne by researchers.