The effect of behavioral parent training on decreasing stress and improving parenting styles of mothers of children with externalized behavior problems

Autor: Mohsen Amiri, Reza Pourhosein, Majid Yosefi Afrashteh, Mahdi Khanabadi, Abbas Motavallipor
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: مجله علوم روانشناختی, Vol 14, Iss 53, Pp 7-21 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1735-7462
2676-6639
Popis: Parental stress and psychological problems of parents of children with behavioral problems have devastating effects on parents' reports of their parenting style and welfare and hence is one of the ways to improve this problems is offering psychological training to parents in the field of controling children with behavioral problems. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of training behavior modification methods on mothers of children with externalized behavior problems on reducing stress and improving parenting styles of these mothers. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and a control group. 24 mothers of children with externalized behavior problems were selected using at-hand sampling and divided into control and experimental groups. Both groups filled out child behavior checklist, parenting style scale and parenting stress index. For the next step, the experimental group received instructions on behavior modification methods in 9 ninety-minute sessions while the mothers in control group went on their normal tasks. At the end of the instructional session, both groups filled out the mentioned questioners as the post-test. Covariance analysis was used for analyzing data. The results of the analysis of covariance showed that instructing behavior modification methods improved authoritarian parenting style scores in mothers (P
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