title: The relationship between mother's parenting style and social adaptability of adolescent girls in Isfahan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social adaptability is an important requirement of the social life of adolescents, which can be affected by their mother's parenting style (PS). The purpose of this study is to compare the social adaptability in four parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and neglectful) through which mothers interact with their adolescent girls.
  
  
  METHODS
  This survey is a cross-sectional and analytical study on 737 adolescents that study in the all girls junior high schools in Isfahan. Data collection was done with a questionnaire. The questionnaires were completed by the adolescents. After data collection, the parenting styles were determined and the social adaptability of the four groups was compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean social adaptability in adolescents who their mothers have the authoritative parenting style was 49.6 ± 6.1, in the permissive parenting style 50.1 ± 5.8, the authoritarian parenting style 44.2 ± 6.5 and in the neglectful parenting style was 42.2 ± 7.5. The social adaptability of the four groups was significantly different (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study shows that the permissive parenting style and after that authoritative parenting style were followed by higher social adaptability in adolescent girls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran And PhD candidate, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ashraf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kazemi
authors.forename: Soheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Solokian
authors.forename: Elaheh
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ashouri
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marofi
keywords: Social adaptability; adolescent; parenting style