The Effectivness of Paranting Training Based Acceptance and Commitment and Filialtherapy on Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Pre-school Children and Life Satisfaction of Mothers

Subject Areas : Educational

daruosh jalali ¹ ( Psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran )
Asghar Aghaee ² ( Professor of psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, iran. )
Maryam Shamsipoor ³ ( General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran )

Received: 2019-12-15 Accepted : 2020-03-01 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: parenting based acceptance and commitment, oppositional defiant disorder, Filial Therapy, pre-school children, life satisfaction,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of parenting training based acceptance and commitment (ACT) and filialtherapy on oppositional defiant disorder in pre-school children in Shahrekord and life satisfaction of their mothers. The statistical population of the study consisted of all mothers of pre-school children in Shahrekord, of whom 48 were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (each group was 16). The research instrument was Oppositional Defiant Disorder Questionnaire (Swanson et al., 2001) for children and Life Satisfaction (Diner et al., 1985) for mothers which were completed during three pre-test , post-test and 3-month follow-up stages. Data were analyzed using analysis repeated measure ANOVA. The results showed that intervention methods were effective on children and mothers' variables  (P< .01). The results also showed that parenting training based ACT and filialtherapy was effective in reducing oppositional defiant disorder (P<0.01). At the same time, it was found, only that parenting training based ACT was effective in improving life satisfacion of  the mothers (P <0.01). It was concluded that both interventional methods, especially parenting training  based  ACT, are effective for children's emotional behavioral problems and improving the life satisfaction of mothers.

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