Investigation of Parenting Style of the Parents of Students with High and Low Levels of Metacognition.

Abstract

it this study, parenting styles of the parents of students with high and low levels of metacognition were compared. Total of 305 high school students participated in the study. Highest and lowest quatliles were determined to calassify out the students as high and low metacognition groups (n: 168). To assess metacognition, Metacognitive Inventory, developed by Cetinkaya and Erkin (2002) and to determine the parenting styles, PAR, adapted by Compte, Compte and Ozer (1978) was used. According to the results, metacognitive levels of students are affected by mothers' strict discipline and rejecting house-wife role but other parenting style characteristics have no effect on metacognitive levels of students.