The Mediating Role of Mental Toughness in the Relationship between Parenting Styles and Flourishing

Subject Areas : Clinical psychology

Amirabbas Fatehi Dehaghani ¹ , Farideh Yousefi ²

1 - MA in Educational Psychology
2 - Associate Professor in Educational Psychology Shiraz University

Received: 2018-04-07 Accepted : 2018-04-07 Published : 2017-12-22

Keywords: Parenting styles, flourishing, hardiness, mental toughness,

Abstract :

he aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of mental toughness in the relationship between of parentingstyles and flourishing. Three hundred and fifty five MA students were selected from Shiraz University by randommultistage cluster sampling. The participants completed the Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991), the Mental ToughnessQuestionnaire (Clough et al., 2002), and the Flourishing Scale (Diener et al., 2010). The results of structural equation modeling usingAMOS software indicated that the relation of authoritarian parenting style to flourishing was positive and significant. The relationshipbetween authoritative parenting style and mental toughness was positive and significant, and the relation of permissive parentingstyle to mental toughness was negative and significant. Authoritarian parenting style had direct relation on flourishing andauthoritative parenting style and permissive parenting style had indirect relation on flourishing through mental toughness. Theimplications of the findings were discussed in terms of their applications to parents and promoting flourishing in individuals.

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