Abstract

The study aimed to identify the parenting styles and their relationship to vocational decision making. The study sample consisted of 383 male and female students from North Al Batinah Schools, selected by random cluster method, in a descriptive and associative study, where the measures of parenting Styles and vocational decision-making were used. The results showed a high level of democratic formation in the sample followed by arbitrary and neglect, and the possession of the sample to the level of high vocational decision making. The results showed statistically significant differences in the approach of neglect in parenting Style, in favor of males and the private sector, and statistically significant differences in vocational decision making for females, while there were no statistically significant differences in parenting Style (democratic and authoritarian) and the vocational decision making related to the father's job. The results also showed that there was no statistically significant correlation between the authoritarian style and the vocational decision-making. They showed a negative statistical correlation between the neglect style and the vocational decision-making. The study ended by providing a number of conclusions and suggestions.