Effectiveness of Respectful Listening to Children Package on Mothers’ Psychological Well-Being

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Nazanin Abed ¹ , Shahla Pakdaman ² , MohammadAli Mazaheri ³ , Mahmood Heidari ⁴

1 - PhD in Psychology
2 - Shahid Beheshti University
3 - Shahid Beheshti University
4 - Shahid Beheshti University

Received: 2017-10-01 Accepted : 2017-10-01 Published : 2017-06-22

Keywords: Psychological well-being, mother-child relationship, Respectful Listening to Children Package,

Abstract :

this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Respectful Listening to Children package on promoting mothers’ psychological well-being. Forty two mother- child dyads were selected by available sampling method from a preschool setting in Tehran. The lack of psychological and behavioral disorders were examined in the participants: The children completed the CBCL (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) and the mothers completed the GHQ (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979).The participants were randomly assigned into either the experimental or control group. The mothers in both groups completed the Warwick- Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (2008) at three stages of pre-test, post-test ,and two-month follow up. The mothers in the experimental group received the respectful listening to children package. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance with mixed procedure (between groups and within groups). The results indicated  that in pre-test stage scores of psychological well-being in the two groups were not so different whereas in post-test stage scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the control group, and  the differences  maintained  after two month follow up. The findings suggested that interventions based on mother-child relationship, especially effective listening to children, may be used in promoting mothers’ psychological well-being, and in preventing future problems in children.  

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