Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

Parenting style of parents in upbringing their children is crucial to provide their health. Present study accomplished to study the relationship between parenting styles with optimism, hope and students` academic achievement in Mahneshan city.
This is a descriptive research and sample of the research includes 184 individuals (92 female, 92 male) as well as their mothers who were sampled randomly from students who were studying in 2015-16 academic year. They were studied using R-LOT (life directional), Miller Hope Scale (MHS) and Baumrind parenting questionnaire, then the data were analyzed using spss software version 18.
The findings indicate that there is a positive relationship between rational parenting styles and optimism, hope and academic achievement (P<0.01) while, there is a reverse significance relationship between authoritarian parenting, optimism and hope (P>0.05) however, it is not associated with academic achievement significantly (P<0.05) meanwhile, permissive parenting and optimism are positively associated (P<0.05) but there is no significant relationship between hope and academic achievement (P>0.05). The results of regression analysis showed that rational and authoritative parenting styles can predict hope (R<sup>2</sup>=0.28), but permissive parenting can`t predict hope s for authoritarian parenting and logical  were able to predict hope.but permissive parenting can`t predict hope. And  that rational parenting, authoritarian can predict optimism(R<sup>2</sup>=0.11), in contrast permissive parenting can`t predict it. Indeed, rational parenting permissive can predict academic achievement(R²=0.10), but authoritarian style can`t predict academic achievement .