Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Fariba Mobini Kesheh ¹
• Mohsen Jadidi ²
• Zahrasadat Pourseyyed Aghaei ³

¹ Department of Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Quds City Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Al-Zahra University (S), Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of positive parenting on parent-child interaction and impulsivity of students with externalized behavioral-emotional problems. The current study was a semi-experimental application with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population included students with externalized behavioral-emotional problems who were studying in the first period of secondary school in the academic year of 2022-2023 in Islamshahr city. In this research, 35 students with externalized emotional-behavioral problems were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (18 students in the experimental group and 17 students in the control group). The parents of the students in the experimental group received the positive parenting intervention during ten weeks in ten 90-minute sessions. Children and Adolescents Behavioral- Emotional Inventory (CABEA), Parent-Child Interaction Questionnaire (PCIQ) and Impulsivity Questionnaire (IQ) were used in the present study. The data were analyzed through mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. The results showed that positive parenting has significant effect on the parent-child interaction (p<0001, Eta=0.63, F=52.27) and impulsivity (p<0001, Eta= 0.68, F=71.02) in the students with externalized behavioral-emotional problems.

Keywords

• Externalized Behavioral-Emotional Problems
• Impulsivity
• Parent-Child Interaction
• Positive Parenting