structural model of psychosocial development of offspring’s in relation to spiritual intelligence and parenting styles of their mothers

abstract aim: aim of study was to determine structural model of relationships between psychosocial developments of offspring’s with spiritual intelligence (sq) and parenting styles of their mothers. method: research method was correlational and statistical population were 29,474 female and male universities students of alborz province in the 2015-16 academic year. by multi-stage random sampling were selected teachers’ university, islamic azad university of karaj branch and agriculture college. based on the table krejcie-morgan (1977) the sample size 400 students was determined. then psychosocial development questionnaire hawley (1988) completed by students, and spiritual intelligence questionnaire abdollahzadeh, kashmiri and arab amely (2008) and parenting styles baumrind, 1973 completed by their mothers. results: results showed that total path coefficient between latent variable of mom sq (β=0.416, p=0.001) and its indirect path coefficient (β=0.178, p=0.01) with psychosocial development of their children is positive and significant, also path coefficients of mothers’ permissive parenting style (β=0.206, p=0.003) and maternal authoritative parenting style (β=0.184, p=0.01) with latent variable of psychosocial development of their children is significant and positive. in contrast, the path coefficients of maternal authoritarian parenting style is not significant with their children psychosocial development. conclusion: spiritual intelligence has a significant impact on offspring’s psychosocial development through the mediation of parenting styles both directly and indirectly. on the other hand, based on existing researches it can be increased by education. so, to facilitate the development of the psychosocial health of the next generations it is necessary that training programs for parents' spiritual intelligence improvement be