Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Sadreddin Eini University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

2 استاد، دانشگاه آکادمی تحصیلات تاجیکستان

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to prediction of academic achievement and self-efficacy based on parenting styles of high school students of Tajikistan Dushanbe city. The study design was descriptive correlational type and the study statistic population included all high school students in the 2012-2013 first semester in Dushanbe city with the quantity of 10000 which through them 300 subjects from 6 schools who were eligible to enter the study, were selected via multistage sampling. The study tools were Baumrind Parenting Styles Questionnaire (1990), Sherer, Maddux, Mercandante, Prentice- Dunn, Jacobs’s et al. General Self-Efficacy Scale (1982) and means of students. The results showed authoritative parenting styles (β=0.508, P=0.001), authoritarian parenting style (β=-0.132, P=0.016), and permissive parenting style (β=-0.135, P=0.001), predict academic achievement. The results showed authoritative parenting styles (β=0.405, P=0.001), authoritarian parenting style (β=-0.321, P=0.001), and permissive parenting style (β=-0.113, P=0.001), predict self-efficacy. Based on these results, development of effective educational programs and family counseling methods to enhance the achievement of the best parenting style and self-efficacy among families is recommended.

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