Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

The present research has been conducted to predict mothers' parenting styles through their attachment styles and personality traits. The design of present research was correlation. The number 310 of mothers' preschool children were selected by random cluster sampling and they completed Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991), Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Read, 1990), NEO-Five Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1989). Collected data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression with stepwise method. The results showed that personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion explained 14 percent of variance in authoritative style, openness and explained 5 percent of variance in permissiveness style, and neuroticism positively and agreeableness negatively explained 5 percent of variance in authoritarian style. Also results showed that only ambivalence style predicted negatively authoritarian and permissive styles. The personality traits in prediction of parenting styles were stronger than attachment styles. Mothers with high level in extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness with more probability will have authoritative style.