Predicting Adaptive Behaviors of Students with Intellectual Disabilities Based on the Parenting Styles of Their Mothers

Hemati Alamdarloo, Qorban; Hosseinkhanzadeh, Abbass Ali; Moradi, Azam; Farshchi, Manijeh

Predicting Adaptive Behaviors of Students with Intellectual Disabilities Based on the Parenting Styles of Their Mothers

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Qorban Hemati Alamdarloo

Abbass Ali Hosseinkhanzadeh

Azam Moradi

Manijeh Farshchi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to predict adaptive behaviors of students with intellectual disabilities on the basis of parenting styles. The statistical population of this research includes all mothers of students with intellectual disabilities in Shiraz city, out of which 101 mothers are selected by random cluster sampling. Parenting styles questionnaire (Robinson et al., 1995) is used for measuring parenting styles and Lambert's Adaptive Behavior Inventory is applied for measuring the adaptive behavior of students with intellectual disabilities. The data analysis done by using multiple regression test shows that authoritarian and permissive parenting styles is a significant positive predictor of antisocial, outburst behavior, violent and disruptive, and stereotypic behaviors, isolation and psychological distress, spleeny and socially inappropriate behaviors (p

Keywords

adaptive behavior

parenting styles

mothers

students with intellectual disabilities