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A new approach to children's education quarterly

The relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and parenting

Document Type : Review

Authors
1 Master's student in Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Research Sciences UniversityIslamic Azad University،Science And Research Branch
2 PhD student in psychology at Payam Noor University, Postgraduate Studies
Abstract
Abstract

Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between parenting and sensory processing sensitivity.

Materials and methods: The present study is a systematic review research in which the articles indexed in English databases such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Scholar and the academic Jihad database (SID), the country's publications information bank (Magiran) and Google Scholar in The period from 2013 to 2023 was searched. The search was done using the keywords Sensory processing, Parenting styles. Persian databases were searched for the keywords of sensory processing, parenting styles. 1119 articles were found, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, nine articles were selected for the final review.

Conclusions: After fully reviewing the text of nine selected articles, their results were explained in detail in Table 1 and in the discussion section.

Conclusion: based on this, it can be concluded that sensory processing sensitivity and parenting styles have a two-way relationship with each other; Sensory processing sensitivity was not only related to authoritarian and permissive parenting styles, but avoidantly attached parents may exhibit more authoritarian or permissive parenting styles due to their level of sensory sensitivity.

Key words: sensory processing; Parenting styles; Sensory processing sensitivity
Keywords
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 18 February 2026
  • Accept Date 16 March 2026
  • First Publish Date 16 March 2026
  • Publish Date 23 August 2026