Relationship of Perceived Parenting Styles With Self-Control Capacity and Affective Self-Regulation Among Delinquent Adolescents

Background: the type of parent’s child rearing and the perception of problems by adolescents are one of the important reasons for the formation of inappropriate behavior and delinquency in adolescents. objectives: the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship of perceived parenting styles with self-control capacity and affective self-regulation among delinquent adolencents. materials & methods: the research type was descriptive-correlational. the population of this study included all delinquent adolescents (n=94) from the guilan provincial reconstruction and upbringing center and temporary detention centers in 2017-2018. seventy-three adolescents were selected and completed the parenting style inventory (psi), tangney self-control scale (tscs) and measure of affect regulation styles (mars). the data were processed using pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analyses by spss v. 22 software. results: regression analysis indicated that authoritative parenting style positively (β=0.906, p<0.001) and authoritarian parenting style negatively (β=-0.537, p<0.001) 38% of the changes were predicted in the scs among delinquent adolencents (f=20.511. p<0.001). also, the authoritative parenting style negatively (β=-0.641, p<0.001) 41% of the changes were predicted in the mars among delinquent adolencents (f=47.543, p<0.001). the permissive parenting style was not statistically significant in any of the regression analyses (p>0.05). conclusion: parenting styles have an effective role in the emergence and inhibition of delinquent behavior. it seems that authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles respectively play a role in improving and weakening self-control capacity and affective self-regulation in delinquent behavior among adolencents boys.