Journal of Family Research

Journal of Family Research

The Effectiveness of Mindful Parenting Training on Parenting Stress and Marital Quality Among Mothers of Intellectually Disabled Children

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors
Khaled Aslani
maria Mardani
Khadijeh Shiralinia
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
10.52547/jfr.17.2.303
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of training mindful par-enting on parenting stress and marital qua-lity among mothers of intellectually disa-bled children. this study is semi-experimental with control group and pretest-posttest design. The population included all mothers of children under 18 years of age with mental disabilities referred to Izeh welfare cen-ters. Then, 30 mothers with intellectually disabled children in range were randomly selected and then divided into two groups (15 for each). mindful parenting. Part-icipants completed two questionnaires including Parenting Stress (Abidin, 1991) and marital quality (Noroton,1983). the experimental group were educated in mindful parenting in 8 sessions over 8 weeks. The results of the multivariate covariance analysis of data indicated that training of mindful parenting is affective in reduction parenting stress and impro-ving marital­ quality. This was also persistent significantly in the follow-up stage after two months (P<0/05). Training of mindful parenting can have beneficial results in improving the mental health of families of intellectually disabled children
Keywords
Parenting Stress
Mindfulness Parenting
Marital Quality
Intellectually Disabled