Abbas Khorshidi - Associate professor at Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr branch
Mehdi Mahdavi - Assistant professor at Islamic Azad University, Khodabandeh branch
Homeira Khalily Samany - University Instructor

The present study explores parents’ educational styles (or ‘parenting styles’ as used by previous researchers) as perceived by their pre-university-aged children. Sample size formula was administered to determine the number of participants; accordingly, ۸۰۰ (۳۸۰ males and ۴۲۰ female) students studying at Tehran pre-university schools were selected through stratified random sampling. Participants were given a researcher-made, ۳۵-item questionnaire devised to measure parenting styles. Data was then analyzed using the Factor Analysis method. Findings revealed four distinguished parenting styles, i.e. Decisive-kind, Decisive-unkind, Permissive-kind & Permissive-unkind styles.

Educational Style, pre-university student, Factor analysis