How does parental morality lead to authoritative parenting style?

Abstract

The study considered the relationship between parental morality and the authoritative parenting style. Regarding the controversial authoritarian-authoritative debate nowadays, the study hoped to provide innovation to this controversy. In-depth interviews applied as the research method to collect the data from the authoritative parents with high morality. Framework analysis elaborated the relationship between parental morality and the authoritative parenting style. The relationship built on consultation between parents and children and the parental consistency adopted, as driven by the morality of care and maintenance of stability and order that resulted in the communication and teaching by example under the authoritative parenting style. These supported the conclusion that parents should consider authoritative parenting style as an effective teaching style with its association of higher level of parental morality.