Relationship between parenting styles, religiosity, and emotional intelligence with addiction potential in high schools students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant professor of consultancy, Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Ahwaz, Iran

2 M.A. student in consultancy, Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Ahwaz, Iran

3 Assistant professor of psychology, Persian Gulf University of Bushehr, Bushehr, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between permissive, authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles, emotional intelligence and religiosity with addiction potential among students in high-schools of Ahwaz.
 Materials and Methods: The population of this correlational study consists of 262 high school students (Ahwaz) selected through multistage cluster sampling method. The tools used for collecting data included Buri’s Parental Authority Questionnaire, Aryan’s Religiosity styles, Shatte's Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) and Zargar's Addiction Potential Scale. Data analyzed by descriptive statistics and regression analysis.
Results: There are significant relationships between permissive, authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles, emotional intelligence, and religiosity with active addiction potential, and between authoritarian parenting style, religiosity, and emotional intelligence with passive addiction potential (P=0.001). There was no significant relationship between permissive and authoritative styles with passive addiction potential. Step-by-step regression analysis indicated that among the research variables religiosity, permissive parenting style, emotional intelligence, authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles are significant predictors for active addiction potential respectively and explain about 39% of its variance. Additionally authoritarian parenting style and religiosity are significant predictors for passive addiction potential and account for 11% of its variance.  
Conclusion: It seems that authoritative parenting style, religiosity and emotional intelligence are effective in reducing addiction potential among the high schools students.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
March and April 2015
Pages 74-80

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