A STUDY ON CLASSIFYING PARENTING STYLES THROUGH DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS

This study was conducted to determine the parenting style of primary and elementary students living in Eski ehir via discriminant analysis. Firstly, the terms of style (attitude), parenting style, and the effects of parenting style on children are explained. In the study, the Parenting Style Inventory developed by Kuzgun (1972) and then revised was administered to 8th grade students. The sample of the study consisted of students from 7 schools in Eski ehir and 685 survey forms were gathered for analyses. As a result, the styles of parents were categorized into four groups (democratic, authoritarian, protective, and neglectful) and the degree of appropriate classifying was determined as very high. At the end of the classification, it was found that the most frequent parenting style was the democratic style, while the least frequent style was the authoritarian style.