THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND PARENTING STYLE

The present study investigated the relation between self-actualization and parenting style. Based on Abraham Maslow's (1954, 1970) theory of motivation and Diana Baumrind's (1971, 1973) research on parenting st yles, it was predicted that high self-actualization scores would be po sitively associated with authoritative parenting and negatively associ ated with authoritarian parenting. To test the hypotheses, college stu dents were administered the Short Index of Self-Actualization (Jones & Crandall, 1986) and the Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991) . Correlational analyses offered support for the hypotheses and sugges t that an authoritative parenting style may facilitate self-actualizat ion.