The Relationship between Perceived Autonomy Supportive Parenting and Identity Styles in Female Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Reflective Thinking

Tahmasbi Jaghargh, Fatemeh; Bordbar, Maryam; Asgharinekah, Seyyed Mohsen

doi:10.48308/jfr.2025.239620.1969

The Relationship between Perceived Autonomy Supportive Parenting and Identity Styles in Female Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Reflective Thinking

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Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

¹ department of counseling and educational psychology, faculty of education and psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² department of counseling and educational psychology- faculty of education and psychology- Ferdowsi University of Mashhad- Mashhad- Iran

³ department of counseling and educational psychology, faculty of education and psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

10.48308/jfr.2025.239620.1969

Abstract

The aim of the current research was to predict adolescent identity styles based on perceived autonomy-supportive parenting, considering the mediating role of reflective thinking. The present research was quantitative and descriptive-correlation of structural equation modeling type. The research population consisted of the secondary students in the academic year of 1402-1403. A total of 271 students were selected using convenience sampling method. In order to collect data and measure research variables, questionnaires of identity styles, Berzonsky (1992), perception of parental autonomy support, Lim (2018), and reflective thinking, Kizilkaya and Askar (2009) were used. Data analysis was done by structural equation modeling method using AMOS software, and the findings of the research indicated that parenting perceived to support autonomy indirectly through reflective thinking is a positive predictor of informational and normative identity styles and a negative predictor of confused/avoidant identity style. Also, perceived autonomy-supportive parenting has a direct and positive relationship with reflective thinking and normative identity style. Reflective thinking directly and positively predicts informative and normative identity styles and negatively predicts confused/avoidant identity style. This research has shown that parental support for adolescent autonomy leads to the formation of identity by increasing reflective thinking.

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