A Comparative Study between the Methods of Democracy, Dictatorship, Idleness and Excessive Protection Used by Parents from the Viewpoint of the Talented Students in the City of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

The present study aims to compare the methods of democracy, dictatorship, idleness and excessive protection used by parents from the viewpoint of the talented students whose ages range (13-15) years from the male and female and who have been selected according the criteria for selecting the talented students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study sample consists of (33%) members of the study community after excluding pilot study sample which comprises (50) male and female students. As such, what is left is (292) students. The study sample has been randomly and intentionality chosen. The scale of democratic, authoritarian, excessive protection and negligence family upbringing has been used after checking the psychometric features. The study has reached into the conclusion that the study sample individuals are distributed between the democratic and authoritarian patterns. Half of the respondents favored the democratic pattern with their talented children and other half favored the authoritarian pattern with their talented children. All the study sample individuals favored the excessive protection pattern with their talented children. None of the respondents have shown interest in using the idleness pattern with their talented children. The study has