A Study of Parenting Style in Emotionally and Formal Divorced Families

The main objective of this research is to investigate the parenting styles in families with emotional divorce and comparing it with the normal and formal divorced families. In present research, the parenting styles are dependent variables which are analyzed in normal, emotionally divorced and formally divorced families. The sample included 525 girl and boy students in grade 1 of high school, in district 1, Shiraz city, with their parents without any problems and the parents involved in formal and emotional divorces which is selected using a clustering random sampling method. In order to recognize the families involved in emotional divorce, their score was considered in emotional divorce. For investigating the parenting styles, the Young's parenting styles questionnaire was used. After completing theses scales by the sample, the data collected in a causal-comparative procedure were evaluated and analyzed using SPSS. The findings implied that there is no significant difference between mothers' parenting styles in formal, emotional divorced and normal families. While, there is significant difference between fathers' parenting styles dimensions in formal, emotional divorced and normal families. Therefore, the differences between these 3 groups are insignificant in deprivation, abandonment, unreliability, vulnerability and merit and in other dimensions are significant.