Journal of Family Research

Journal of Family Research

The predictive role of parents' wisdom in their parent-child relationship and Metaparenting: Regarding gender differences

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
maryam zare zardeini 1
Samaneh Asadi 2
maryam salehzadeh abarghoee 3
1 A graduate of Yazd University
2 Department of Psychology Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University
10.48308/jfr.2025.235551.1743
Abstract
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of parental wisdom in the parent-child relationship and their meta-parenting. The research project of solidarity and its community was all the parents of Yazd city, who were randomly selected in a multi-stage way, 150 mothers and 150 fathers with at least two children (one of the children in adolescence). They completed Ardlet's Intelligence, Pianta's Parent-Child Relationship, and Hawk and Holden's meta-parenting Questionnaires. Data were analyzed using correlation test and multiple regression analysis. Increasing the scores of the cognitive and reflective dimension played a role in reducing the conflict and the reflective dimension predicted dependence inversely. Also, higher emotional scores predict higher extra-parenting. The results of the separation of fathers and mothers showed that reflectiveness in fathers and emotionality in mothers can predict the intimacy of parent-child relationship, and an increase in reflection dimension in both groups of fathers and mothers leads to a decrease in parent-child relationship. The findings showed that increasing wisdom in parents can improve the parent-child relationship in general, and be a tool for their meta-parenting.
Keywords
wisdom
parent-child relationship
meta-parenting
gender
intimacy
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