The Relationship between parenting styles , parenting practices , maternal education level with physical activity levels among adolescent girls

The purpose of this study was to survey the relationship between parenting styles and physical activity levels, among adolescent girls in Rasht. The study was based on the descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population is composed of entire adolescent girl’s athletes in city of Rasht in Iran which was selected as samples. They are 400 adolescent girls’ athletes, its mean age of 15.59±1.1 years, height 164.23±6.94 cm, and weight 57.32±11.71 kg and body mass index 21.19±3.81 kg.m2 respectively volunteered to participation in this study. Data were collected by physical activity Questionnaire (PAQ-A) and Parenting Style Inventory II (PSI-II). The reliability was measured by Cronbach's Alpha (α=0.78, α=0.83) at p=0.05. The data were analyzed through some statistics techniques such as KolmogorovSmirnov test and Pearson correlation coefficients. The results show that there were no significant correlation between physical activity levels and parenting styles (Authoritarian, Authoritative) in Mothers. But the relationship between physical activity levels and Permissive was negative. Also, there was negative relationship between performing physical activity in students and characteristics of parents' education level. According to research findings can result that other factors influence on physical activities, too. For achieving clear information in this field, it is necessary more research.

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