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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between parental styles and the achieving of psychological identity among adolescents. The sample of the study consisted of (78) male and female students chosen randomly. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher administrated two instruments, the first to explore the parentqal styles consisted of (4) items distributed into two fields, each contains four domains. The second is to explore the adolescent's achievement of his psychological Identity, consisted of (60) items distributed into tow domains. The findings of the study showed that the dominant parental style was the democratic style and the dominant psychological identity status among adolescents is achieving this identity. Moreover, the findings showed that there was a positive significant relation between the democratic style and achieving the psychological identity and there was a positive relationship between authoritarian parental style and protection as well as neglecting and the closed identity as well as disordered identity. On other hand there was a negative relationship between acceptance styles and the closed identity as well as disordered identity. And there was a positive relation between abandoned style and closed psychological identity.