THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTING STYLES AND OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT OF FIFTH GRADE MALE STUDENTS OF SHADEGAN CITY

Behavioral disorders in children that usually appear as incompatibility and abnormal and immoral or anti-social behaviors result from the parents' education and conducts. The general objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and oppositional defiant of the fifth-grade male students of Shadegan. This is a correlational (descriptive) study. The instruments of the study were the parenting and oppositional defiant questionnaires. Simple random sampling used to select the fifty fifth-grade male students of Shadegan. The participants answered the two questionnaires. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to analyze data. Results of the study showed that there is not a significant relationship between parenting styles and oppositional defiant (permissive and logical authoritative) and oppositional defiant at 0.001 level of significance. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between oppositional defiant and authoritarian parenting at 0.001 level of significance. Styles that parents apply to educate their children play a crucial role in children's mental health.

Parenting, Oppositional Defiant, Male Students, Shadegan