the effect of parent-child relationship styles on the social adjustment of the adolescent girls.

introduction : the purpose of this study was to examine and compare the social adjustment in balanced and non-balanced patterns of the parent-child relationship.  methods : the research population was all female gifted students in the farzanegan high school in the first educational district of tehran in 2013-14. the sample research included 96 female gifted students who answered the parent-child relationship model questionnaire and the social adjustment subscale of the bell adjustment inventory. after scoring their responses and removing uncompleted ones, sample population was divided into three groups of: the balanced, the non-balances liberal based, and the non-balanced secure-based patterns of parent-child relationship. data were analyzed by the spss using one-way anova.  results :the results showed that the mother-child pattern of the relationship influenced on the child’s social adjustment, while there was no significant influence for the father-child pattern of the relationship.  conclusion : it should be taken into account that the results of this study shows the social adjustment in young ages and before being independent from the family, but the secure-based pattern essentially does not train individuals with high social adjustment.