The role of mothers parenting style and personality traits in predicting secondary school students academic self-handicapping

Farzaneh Michaeli Manee¹ Sheler Ab khiz²

1) Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2) Masters graduate of Educational Psychology, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

IOI Code : XDDC-FDCKB
Publication : 1th National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents (cpcauma.ir)
Abstract :
    The purpose of this study was examinating the role of the mothers parenting styles and personality traits in predicting secondary school students academic self-handicapping. The other aim was to investigate discriminatory power of personality and its traits.The statistical society was Uromia senior highschool students that 385 (185 female and 200 male) subjects and their mothers were selected by multi stage random sampling method from and were participated in the research. Buri parental authority questionnaire, NEO-FFI personality test and PALS self-handicapping scale were used in order to assessing the variables. To analyze the data Anova and regression were used. The results showed significant difference between self-handicapping level of different mothers parenting styles and among this children of the authoritative mothers were less self-handicapper (p<0/01). Also, there was a significant difference between self-handicapping level of personality traits of children with different mothers parenting styles except extroversion trait. Results of the Regression showed that authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles could predict significantly 15% variance of academic self-handicapping. Adding personality traits to regression caused increasing in predictory power for 11%. Then, it can be concluded that authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles and personality traits including nouroticism, openness to experience and conscientiousness are determining variables in utilising self-handicapping behaviors and strategies.

Keywords : academic self handicapping students five factor personality parenting styles mothers