Comparison of Level of Depression and Anxiety of Female Students in High School Raised by Different Parenting Styles in Bandar Abbas

Depression is a mood disorder, which is associated with feelings of emotional despair, incompetence, guilt, fear and worthlessness. Anxiety is defined as a defused, unpleasant and often ambiguous sense of fear. This sense is often associated with one or more than one physical feelings (anxiety often manifests specific physical symptoms). Parenting styles are defined as the methods, which typical parents use to rear their children. This study aimed to compare levels of depression and anxiety of female adolescents whose parents used four different parenting styles to rear their children. This study is a kind of ex post facto study. The sample included 310 individuals who were selected using multistage stratified random sampling method. Parental behavior and SCL90 questionnaires were used as data collection tools. One-way ANOVA with Scheffé post-hoc test were used to analyze the results while SPSS was used for data analysis. The findings showed that there is statistically a significant difference between rates of depression in four parenting styles (0.0001). Scheffé post-hoc test showed that authoritarian group had the highest rate of depression while the authoritative group had the lowest rates of depression. The difference in the level of anxiety between four parenting styles was also statistically significant (0.0001). Scheffeʹs test showed that the authoritarian group had the highest rate of anxiety while the uninvolved group had the lowest rate of anxiety.