A Comparative Study of Parenting Styles of School Teachers on Rostaq District of Takhar Province in 2023

Abstract

The Parenting styles refer to the methods that parents use in dealing with children, which can have a great and profound effect on the development of a person during childhood and the subsequent characteristics of the adulthood personality. The main purpose of this research was to compare the level of tendency towards parenting styles among the school teachers on Rustaq District of Takhar Province, which was carried out with a descriptive survey method. The data collection tool was Bamrind's Parenting Styles Questionnaire (1991). The statistical population of this research included four schools in Rustaq district of Takhar province. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula with 95% confidence level and 5% error level, which was calculated 171 people. The target sample was selected by stratified sampling. The data were analyzed through IBM-SPSS-24 software. The findings showed that the level of tendency towards autocratic and permissive parenting styles among the Schools teachers of Rustaq district was lower than the average and the level of tendency towards logical authority style was higher than the average. The Comparing of the level of attachment to parenting styles by gender showed that female teachers use permissive style more than male teachers. The result is that the tendency to the style of rational authority among the school’s teachers can play a healthy educational role in their teaching activities and develop a healthy personality in their students.