Authoritarian personality and Social Capital Among Primary School Student's Parents in Shiraz

Parents have effective role in children upbringing. So study of parent’s authoritarian personality and transfer it to child could be serious. This paper tries to show relationship of authoritarian personality and social capital and other variables (such as, age, education…).In these study, we focused on primary school parents in Shiraz. Adorno’s F- scale was main scale for measuring parent’s authoritarian personality and we distribute our questionnaire among 400 parents. Statistics analyses show relation between two main variables (authoritarian personality and social capital) are significant. In addition, some variable such as age, education and number of children had significant relation with authoritarian personality. Finally our conclusion shows that on primary school parents in Shiraz have high rate of authoritarian personality.