Relations between Parenting Styles and Character Strengths in University Students

Abstract

In this study, 248 (77% female, 23% male) university students aged 19-25 (average age 20.85 years)were interviewed about their character strengths and their parents' parenting styles. According to the findings of the study, significant differences were determined according to gender in the character strengths, which are under all other virtues except the virtue of justice. As a result of the calculated correlations, it was determined that all character strengths except the humour under the virtue of transcendence and the character strengths of forgiveness and modesty under the virtue of temperance showed significant relationships with the parenting styles of the parents of the university students. Looking at the findings of the regression analysis, it was determined that authoritative motherhood and authoritative fatherhood styles significantly predicted all character strengths under the virtue of courage, wisdom, justice and humanity.