The Mediating Role of External Locus of Control in the Relationship between Parenting Styles and Emotional and Academic Resilience

Document Type : Empirical Studies

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Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/mhrp.2023.336490.1012

Abstract

As a multidimensional construct, resilience and its facilitators and inhibitors has attracted considerable attention in the literature. Present study examined the relationship between parenting styles and educational and emotional resilience within a socio-cognitive framework. The purpose was to present an explanatory causal model of educational and emotional resilience with the mediating role of locus of control. A total of 394 female students of Alzahra University of Tehran, residing in dormitories, were selected using random sampling method and participated in this study by responding to four questionnaires including: parental authority scale (PAQ), the Rotter's locus of control scale (LCS), academic resilience scale (ARS), and emotional resilience scale (ERS). Two separate theoretical models were proposed and tested using path analysis modeling. The goodness of fit indices indicated that the proposed models fit the data well. For the first model, the students' external locus of control (EXLC) significantly mediated both the relationship between authoritative parenting style and the students' academic resilience as well as the relationship between authoritarian parenting style and academic resilience. However, the permissive parenting style did not show any significant indirect effect on the students' academic resilience through EXLC.
For the second model, the students' EXLC could significantly and separately mediate the relationship between all three different parenting styles and the students' emotional resilience. These results also supported the multidimensional nature of resilience among Iranian students.

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The Mediating Role of External Locus of Control in the Relationship between Parenting Styles and Emotional and Academic Resilience © 2023 by Zahra Hashemi; Zahra Naghsh; and Mahboobeh Kadkhodaie is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 

Mental Health: Research and Practice
Volume 2, Issue 1
January 2023
Pages 35-45

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  • Receive Date: 07 April 2022
  • Revise Date: 29 August 2022
  • Accept Date: 29 December 2022

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