The Efficacy of Family and School Together Program on Family Educational and Cultural Performance and Parental Self-Efficacy in Mothers of 4-6-Years-Old Children

Subject Areas : Psychology

Leila Soltani ¹ , Maryam Ansari ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-04-16 Accepted : 2024-06-07 Published : 2024-06-11

Keywords: Family and school together program, Parental self-efficacy of mothers, Family educational and cultural performance,

Abstract :

The research was intended to examine the efficacy of family and school together program (FAST) on the educational and cultural performance of families and the parenting self-efficacy of mothers with 4-6 years old children in Isfahan on 1403. The research statistical population embraced all the mothers of four- to six-years-old children in kindergartens in Isfahan on 1403. The sample encased 30 of mothers who were selected by convenience sampling procedure and were placed in two experimental and control groups, 15 participations each. The research was designed as pretest posttest semi-experimental one with tow experimental and control groups. To collect data Family Educational and Cultural Performance Questionnaire (Babaei Fard, 2021) and Parenting Self-Agency Measure (PSAM) (Dumka & et al., 1996) were implemented. The experimental group exposed to (FAST) Program for 8 sessions with 150 minutes’ duration each and the control group received none. Then both groups were post tested. The data were analyzed by applying multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The results revealed that both groups differed significantly in educational and cultural performance means in the two experimental and control groups (F=237.91 , P<0.5). Also, there was a significant difference between the means of parental self-efficacy in the two experimental and control groups (F=225.18 and P<0.5). It could be concluded that (FAST) program was effective on family educational and cultural performance and self-efficacy in mothers with 4 to 6-year-old, and this program can be utilized to strengthen the parenting skills of mothers in the family and society.

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