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Referee Report: https://doi.org/10.5256/f1000research.20568.r46914, Maryam Zamanian, Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran, 13 May 2019, version 2, 1 approved, 2 not approved

Referee Report: https://doi.org/10.5256/f1000research.16306.r44614, Weiqiao Fan, Research Institute of International and Comparative Education, Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, 04 Mar 2019, version 1, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved

Referee Comment: <b>Zohreh Shahhosseini</b>; <i>Posted: 30 Mar 2019</i>; The topic of the manuscript is extremely important and interesting. The manuscript provided a summary for factors of parenting styles. However, the manuscript did not establish a clear research gap and a clear research purpose. The author(s) did not provide logic rationales for the research. What’s more, there is not a logical introduction to deduce the research questions. In other words, more attention should be paid for the major issues. Therefore, I do not think the manuscript should be indexed. There are some specific comments to the manuscripts, which may help the author(s) to improve the work. There are many models for parenting styles in the literature. Different model may relate with different factors. However, the author(s) did not touch this issue. Or rather, this is not a logical introduction to this paper. Accordingly, this manuscript cannot have a significant contribution in theory or practice. Response: Introduction section was revised in page 2, paragraph 1, line 1-15 The definition of “parenting styles” in the first sentence is not liberal. And it cannot reflect the main meaning of parenting style in literature. Response: Introduction section was revised in page 2, paragraph 1, line 1-3 In Introduction section, the concepts and theory are not clear. Authors should clearly describe parenting styles, the factors and models. Meanwhile, the research questions and significance of the study should also be clearly stated. Response: Introduction section was revised in page 2, paragraph 1, line 1-15 and in page 2, paragraph 2, line 4-6 I cannot see a thorough review for “review of parenting style” in literature. This should be the foundation of the current manuscript. Response: Introduction section was revised in page 2, paragraph 1, line 3-15 In Method section, each subsection is well defined with clear headings, but in “search strategy” section, I find it difficult to understand why the retrieved articles were based on medical subject headings. Medical Subject Headings is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences; it serves as a thesaurus that facilitates searching. After results, the author(s) should explain the results and compare the results to those previous review works in the literature, rather than simply repeating the results. Response: Discussion section was revised in page 11, paragraph 1, line 1-5 and in, paragraph 2, line 8-10 and page 12, paragraph 1, line 7- 11 The author(s) should also add some sections as contribution and implication section to discuss the contributions of the manuscript in theory at least. Response: Implication section was add in page 12, paragraph 3, line 1-2 The authors should reorganize the paragraphs based on the importance of factors or some other logics. Response: Introduction section was revised in page 5-9 The writing and grammar should be improved, and the manuscript is limited by the lack of clarity in the writing. Response: It was revised.

Referee Report: https://doi.org/10.5256/f1000research.20568.r71425, Luísa Barros, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 28 Sep 2020, version 2, 1 approved, 2 not approved

Grant Information: Student Research Committee of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences for their financial support of this project (code number, 2952). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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