Comparing perceived parenting styles and Birth order in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and normal people

The purpose of this study was to compare perceived parenting styles in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and normal people. The population of the study consisted of students from Tehran universities that were selected 430 people by Convenience Sampling. Among them, 70 people with high scores on obsessive-mental-practical scale and 70 people who were matched characteristics of gender, age, education and marital status with low scores on the scale of intellectual and practical wisdom were selected. The sample group completed the Maudsley obsessive compulsive inventory (MOCI), Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS), the checklist of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptom DSMIV-TR and Naghashan Parenting Style Inventory. The findings of the Chi-square two-variable test with a significant level (P <0.01) showed that the prevalence of perceived parenting styles in obsessive individuals was different from that of normal people, with a strict parenting style in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and deceitfulness in normal people More abundant. There was no significant difference between males and females in terms of parenting style. There was a difference in the order of birth between men and women with obsessive-compulsive disorder. There was a difference in the order of birth between men and women with obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to the findings, obsessive individuals have a strict perception of perception, while normal individuals have a decisive style perception. There is no gender difference in parenting style. The results show that women with obsessive-compulsive disorder are more likely to be the third child and that men are more likely to be the first child.