en کودکان استثنایی Exceptional Children پژوهشي Original Research Articles <span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><strong><span style="color:black">Objective:</span></strong><span style="color:black">&nbsp;Parenting practices influence child behavioral development, but the psychological pathways in children with intellectual disability (ID) remain unclear. We examined whether maternal mental health </span><span style="color:red">mediated</span><span style="color:black"> the association between parenting style and behavioral problems among Iranian mothers of children with ID aged 7&ndash;10 years.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><strong><span style="color:black">Methods.</span></strong>&nbsp;<span style="color:#ee0000">In this cross-sectional study of 100 mother-child dyads, we measured behavioral problems (</span><span style="color:red">Rutter questionnaire), parenting-style (standardized measure), maternal well-being and distress, and child cognitive ability (Raven&#39;s Progressive Matrices). Mediation was tested with PROCESS v4.1 (Model 4; 5,000 bootstrap resamples); indirect effects were significant when 95% bias-corrected confidence intervals excluded zero. </span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><strong><span style="color:red">Results.</span></strong>&nbsp;<span style="color:red">Of 100 children (44 boys and 56 girls), 82 had mild and 18 had moderate problems. Maternal well-being and distress differed across parenting styles (both <i>p</i> < 0.001): authoritative parenting was associated with highest well-being (<i>M</i> = 53.78) and lowest distress (<i>M</i> = 32.80), whereas authoritarian parenting showed the reverse (<i>M</i> = 33.03; 46.42). Moderate problems were more frequent among children in rental housing (<i>p</i> = 0.026), with authoritarian parenting (<i>p</i> < 0.001), and in higher grades (<i>p</i> = 0.027). Maternal well-being mediated the associations of authoritarian (<i>&beta;</i> = &minus;0.31), authoritative (<i>&beta;</i> = &minus;0.31) and permissive (<i>&beta;</i> = &minus;0.18) parenting with moderate problems; distress mediated those of authoritarian (<i>&beta;</i> = 0.37) and permissive (<i>&beta;</i> = 0.40) parenting. </span><span style="color:#00b050">Mediation was indirect-only for authoritative and inconsistent for permissive parenting. </span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:150%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><strong><span style="color:black">Conclusions.</span></strong>&nbsp;<span style="color:red">Maternal mental health, particularly well-being, statistically mediated the association between parenting styles and behavioral problems in children with ID. These factors may be targets for family-focused interventions, although the cross-sectional design precludes causal inference. </span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Parenting Styles, Behavioral Problems, Intellectual Disability, Maternal Mental Health. 0 0 http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-179-18&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Masoume Pourmohamadrezatajrishi mpmrtajrishi@gmail.com Yes Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan- Iran Negar Anaraki Kordi negaranaraki6622@gmail.com No Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Neda Ali-Beigi nedapsych@gmail.com No Razieh Bidhendi-Yarandi razi_bidhendi@gmail.com No Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology