Predicting Children's Integrative Self-Knowledge in Terms of Parenting Characteristics of Parents

The relationship between parenting characteristics of parents and child-ren's integrative self-knowledge was investigated in the present study. The aim was to examine the predictive po-wer of children's integrative self-knowledge in terms of parenting ch-aracteristics of involvement, autono-my support, and warmth in a sample of students. A total of 352 undergraduate students (142 males, 210 females) from Univ-ersity of Tehran were included in this study. Participants were asked to complete the Perception of Parents Scale (PPS) and the Integrative Self-Knowledge Scale (ISKS). Perceived autonomy support and perceived war-mth showed a significant positive ass-ociation with integrative self-knowl-edge. Regression analysis revealed th-at perceived autonomy support and perceived warmth can predict changes of integrative self-knowledge, respec-tively. It can be concluded that paren-ting characteristics of parents can in-fluence children's integrative self-kn-owledge in different ways and possib-ly through different mechanisms. Th-ese characteristic are also influenced by cultural variables.