The Relationship Between Parenting Style and Addiction Susceptibility in Children

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of parenting style on the prediction of Addiction Susceptibility (AS) in children. The present study pl-ans to investigate whether different parenting styles lead to shaping vari-ous addiction susceptibility in child-ren. Participants were 304 single male and female students of Islamic Azad University at Khoy Branch. Particip-ants were between 19 and 26 years of age and were chosen using Stratified Random Sampling method. Data were gathered using the add-iction susceptibility questionnaire-student version (ASQ-SV) and the parenting style questionnaire (PSQ). Data were analyzed using multiple regression and partial correlation. The results show that paternal and mate-rnal authoritative parenting style (PS) has a negative and significant relation-ship with children’s AS. Authoritative PS is a reverse and significant predict-tor of children’s AS. Father’s and mo-ther’s authoritarian PS has a positive and significant relationship with their children’s AS. Authoritarian PS is a direct and significant predictor of children’s AS. Parents’ neglectful PS has also a positive and significant relationship with children’s AS. Mother’s neglectful PS is a direct and significant predictor of children’s AS. Father’s neglectful PS، however، is not a significant predictor of children’s AS. Permissive PS does not show a significant relationship with children’s AS. The present study introduces authoritative PS as the most efficient style in terms of reducing AS and authoritarian and neglectful PS as the most inefficient styles in terms of increasing AS. Thus، Parents training should be the main goal of drug demand reduction program (DDRP).