Educational styles, communication and contentment of students with their families

The goal of the research was to investigate which sub dimensions of the authoritarian, authoritative and permissive educational style mostly contribute to the perception of family functioning as a whole, and especially perception of the communication in the family. Our research sample had 576 students University of Nis. The questionnaire of educational styles PSDQ (Robinson, C. C., Mandleco, B., Olsen, S. F., & Hart, C. H., 2001) and partially with questioner FACES IV (Olson D.H., Gorrall, M.D. and Tiesel W.J. 2005) was used and that relates to the communication in family and contentment with family as a whole. We got a statistically important negative correlation between authoritarianism of father and mother, as educational style and contentment with the family as a whole and the communication in it. We got a statistically positive correlation between the authoritativeness of mother and father as educational style and the contentment with the family as a whole and the communication in it (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari of Cognitive - Counselling, Research & Conference Services C-crcs.