Predicting children's internalized and externalized behavioral problems based on parenting styles and maternal stress

Abstract

Background and objective: The present study aimed to predict internalized and externalized behavioral problems in children based on
parenting styles and maternal stress.
Methodology: The present research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of all mothers of primary
school students in Shiraz, who were studying in the academic year 2018-2019. From the statistical population, 250 people were selected using
the multi-stage cluster random sampling technique. These mothers were asked to answers the Baumrind Parenting Style and Dimensions
Questionnaire (1991-PSQD), Abidin Parenting Stress Index (PSI-1990), and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) by Achenbach. The obtained
data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis.
Findings: Correlation coefficients showed that there was a negative relationship between authoritarian parenting style and maternal stress and
internalized and externalized behavioral problems. Findings also showed that there was a positive significant relationship between the
permissive and authoritative parenting styles and internalized and externalized behavioral problems (0.01). The results of th e multivariate
regression analysis showed that the permissive parenting style, the authoritative parenting style, and maternal stress could predict externalized
problems. Furthermore, the findings also disclosed that the authoritarian style, the permissive style, and maternal stress could predict internalized
problems (0.01).