The role of parenting style as perceived by children in the intrinsic motivation

BELÉN MESURADO

Berlín, Alemania

Congreso; XXIX International Congress of Psychology.; 2008

International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of parenting style perception of children on intrinsic motivation and whether it changes with sex and/or age. The sample includes 270 participants, aged 9 to 10, of middle socioeconomic level, from Argentina. Parenting style was measured using Inventario de Percepción de Relaciones Parentales (Richaud de Minzi, 2007) and intrinsic motivation was computed according to Cuestionario de Experiencia Óptima (Mesurado, 2007). The regression analysis suggests that there is a strong influence of parenting style on the intrinsic motivation only for girls. Nonetheless, this effect decreases with age.