Comparing the Efficacy of Parenting Education Based on Coping with Challenges of Parenting and Triple-p (Positive Parenting Program) on Components of Effective Parenting and Marital Adjustment in Mothers of Adolescent

Hajkhodadadi, Davoud; Abedi, Mohamad Reza; Jazayeri, Rezvan Sadat; Etemadi, Ozra

doi:10.52547/jfr.17.2.243

Comparing the Efficacy of Parenting Education Based on Coping with Challenges of Parenting and Triple-p (Positive Parenting Program) on Components of Effective Parenting and Marital Adjustment in Mothers of Adolescent

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

davoud hajkhodadadi ¹

Mohamad Reza Abedi ²

Rezvan Sadat Jazayeri ³

Ozra Etemadi

¹ PhD Student in Family Counseling, Counseling Department, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Isfahan University

² Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

10.52547/jfr.17.2.243

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of parenting education based on coping with challenges of parenting and triple-p on effective parenting components and marital adjustment in mothers of adolescents. This study was a semi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and control groups with a follow-up a month later. The study population consisted of mothers with adolescent in Isfahan 2018. Among them, 24 volunteers were selected through random selection sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Exp-erimental groups were treated for 2 hours in 8 sessions. The data were collected using Alabama parenting questionnaire and Dyadic adjustment scale. The results of repeated measurements analysis showed that there was a significant diff-erence in Positive Parenting and poor monitoring. Also between parenting prog-ram based on coping with Challenges and control group was significant difference in Positive Parenting, Corporal Punishment and parental attentiveness. No differences were found between two training packages in terms of effective parenting and marital adjustment (p<0.05). Based on the fin-dings, it can be stated that standard training package (Triple-p) and parenting education based on coping with challenges of parenting can each promote some parenting functions, due to the different effectiveness of these two educational methods, it is recommended to use these educational programs to improve the quality of parenting.

Keywords

Effective parenting

coping with challenges of parenting

Positive parenting program

Adolescent

marital adjustment