If you aren’t sure which type of parent you are, it can help to take a parenting style questionnaire. Most questionnaires about parenting styles have a series of questions to be answered that are scored to determine your style. It is important to answer how you really behave, not what you think the right answer would be.

Where To Find A Parenting Style Questionnaire

Questionnaires about parenting styles can be found in many places. If you have online access, just using “parenting style questionnaire” in a search engine will bring up several options. If you click on them, you’ll find that there are two basic types: printable, where you can print it out and answer on paper (then score it yourself), or entirely online, where you answer and they give you a result on the spot.

You can also find parenting style questionnaires in many parenting magazines. Every so often, the magazines will have an article about parenting styles, and questionnaire usually accompanies the article. Check with your local library for back issues that have quizzes such as these.

You can also get a parenting style questionnaire from books about types of parenting styles. With these, you should either use a separate piece of paper to record your answers or make a copy of the quiz before putting pen to paper. The advantage of getting a quiz from a book is that there will usually be an extensive explanation of each type, as well as how to change your style if you’d like. An example of this type of book is Barbara Coloroso’s best seller “Kids Are Worth It.”

What Does A Parenting Style Questionnaire Entail?

Most parenting style questionnaires are not too lengthy, maybe a dozen questions or less. There are a couple of different typical styles of quiz. Some are the “here’s the situation, which response would you give” type. They would typically have questions about the role of the parent, the responsibility of the child, discipline beliefs, who deserves respect, how are problems solved, who makes the rules, how children are motivated, etc. Other quizzes have a different style – where there are two sections: beliefs and actions. The beliefs section is about how much you agree or disagree with a certain statement. For example, you would say how much you agree or disagree with the statement “Children learn best if the discipline hurts a little – it helps them remember to do better.” The other half of the parenting style questionnaire, about actions, is about what currently goes on in your house. A typical question might be, “My child knows the consequences if he or she misbehaves.” Once again, it would be on a sliding scale of agree – disagree.

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