This study investigated adolescents ego identity status development and the relations among parenting authoritativeness,identity style and ego identity status on 1233 adolescents ranging from middle school to university,using the revised Extend Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status-2,Identity Style Inventory-3 and Parenting Style Questionnaire.

To test the "goodness of fit" model,this study examined the associations between the goodness of adolescents beliefs of parental authority fitting with parents actual rule on adolescents behavior and parent-adolescent relationships by multimethod,and some supportive results were found.

Adolescents beliefs about parental authority that has significant effects on adolescents behavior,social adaptation and parent-adolescent relationship is one of the important theses in social cognition domain.

In family life,the exchanges of resources between parents and children maintain the movement of parents authority.

The analysis of parents authority in the paper falls into two categories: the process analysis and the structure analysis.

Therefore, interrelation between children s temperament activity and parenting is the hot topic of temperament psychology.

Grandparenting research expanded rapidly during the past three decades in international.

Sufficient studies have found that compared to parents in western cultures, Chinese parents are normally applying an authoritarian parenting style.