The Effectiveness of Parenting Training Program Based on Choice Theory on Mother-Son Relationship Quality

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 psychology & Educational Science Faculty, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of counseling and Educational Psychology Group , Dept. of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Tehran University

3 Associate professor of counseling and Educational Psychology Group, Dept. of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Tehran University

4 Psychology & Educational Science Faculty, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of parenting training program based on choice theory on the quality of mother-son relationship. The research was carried out in the framework of a quasi-experimental design of a pretest-posttest and follow-up test with a control group. The research population consisted of mothers and their sons of eight and ninth grade in schools of Baghershahr in 1395-1396 .In order to implement interventions, 40 volunteer mothers whose children had been selected through cluster sampling and had reported relational problems with their mothers, were selected. Then, they were randomly divided into the experimental and control group. All subjects (children) were evaluated in three stages (pre-test, post-test and follow-up) before and after the training whit child's attitude toward mother scale (CAMS). Analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to analyze the data. The results showed that intervention in experimental group, in comparison with control group, decreased the scores of relational problems in post-test and follow-up test. Also this study showed that the average effect size of seven 2-hours sessions of choice-theory parenting program improving quality of mother-son relationship was 24.6%.So parenting training based on choice theory has good effect on improvement the quality of mother-son relationship.

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