Parenting Styles and Hardiness of Students in a Thai Military Academy
Tikumporn Hosiri MD1, Kamonnet Wannasewok MD1, Pornthida Chaiharn MSc1, Sucheera Phattharayuttawat PhD1, Vichai Manussirivithaya MD2, Thienchai Ngamthipwatthana MD1
Affiliation : 1 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 2 Naval Medical Department, Royal Thai Navy, Bangkok, Thailand
Objective : To study the correlation between parenting styles and hardiness of a Thai military students and the predictive role
of parenting styles to the hardiness.
Materials and Methods : The military students in total of 319 students responded to the parenting style rating scale and Thai
version of the dispositional resilience scale [DRS15]. The statistical analysis included descriptive statistic, One-way ANOVA,
Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression.
Results : Most military students received authoritative parenting style (69.93%) and scored higher than the mean score of
hardiness (54.69%). The differences in parenting styles resulted in differences in hardiness had a statistical significant.
Authoritative parenting style had moderate positive correlation with hardiness (r = 0.323, p<0.01). Authoritarian and
neglectful parenting style had low negative correlation with hardiness (r = -0.22, p<0.01 and r = -0.27, p<0.01 respectively).
Permissive parenting style did not have a statistically significant correlation with hardiness. While authoritative parenting
style also had the predictive ability of hardiness by 10%.
Conclusion : In military students, authoritative parenting style had moderate positive correlation with hardiness and had the
predictive ability of 10% for hardiness. The authoritative parenting style had positive affected on their hardiness.
Keywords : Parenting styles, Hardiness, Military
