sodabeh Mirsadeghi; Faramarz Sohrabi; Ahmad Borjali; Hossein Skandari; Nour Ali Farrokhi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare parenting styles and the quality of subject relations in mothers with children with normal and anxiety disorder. The research method is descriptive of causal-comparative type. The statistical population of the study consisted of mothers of children with separation ...
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The purpose of this study was to compare parenting styles and the quality of subject relations in mothers with children with normal and anxiety disorder. The research method is descriptive of causal-comparative type. The statistical population of the study consisted of mothers of children with separation anxiety disorder referring to counseling centers and mothers of normal children in Tehran. Sixty individuals (30 people per group) were selected using available sampling method. The research tools included parenting styles questionnaire (Robinson et al., 1995) and thematic relationships (Bell, Bilington and Baker, 1985). Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and independent t-test. The results showed that there is a significant difference between parenting styles and the quality of maternal relationships between children with anxiety disorder and normal children's mothers (p