Effectiveness of Instructional Hope centered Parenting Package on Parental Stress of Mothers of Preschool Children in Isfahan

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Mehdi Mazaheri Tehrani ¹ , Mohammad Masoud Dayariyan ² , Fatemeh Javadzadeh Shahshahani ³

1 - PhD Student in Counseling, Department of Counseling, KhomeiniShahr Branch, Islamic Azad University. KhomeiniShahr / Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, KhomeiniShahr Branch, Islamic Azad University. KhomeiniShahr / Isfahan, Iran (Corresponding Author) [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, KhomeiniShahr Branch, Islamic Azad University. KhomeiniShahr / Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2021-02-13 Accepted : 2021-05-03 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: parental stress, preschool, mothers, parenting, Hope Center,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of instructional hope centered  parenting package on Parenting Stress of  mothers of  Preschool children in Isfahan. The research method was quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test and follow-up with experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the study was mothers of preschool children in Isfahan in 2020, of which 30 mothers were screened through accessible sampling. Finally, 30 mothers randomly assigned to the experimental group (15 mothers) and the control group (15 mothers). The applied instruments included instructional hope center parenting package (researcher-made) and short form Parenting Stress (Abidin,1983). Participants in both groups completed short form of Parenting Stress questionary in three stages. The experimental group received a 90-minute training package (researcher-made) for 10 sessions. Data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance in SPSS software. The results indicated the effect of the Instructional Hope Center Parenting Package on the score of negative Parenting Stress (P< 0.05) in the post-test stage and the stability of this effect in the follow-up stage.  The results of the study suggest evidences that training this package to reduce ParentingStress in mothers. This research can be useful for psychotherapists and counselors in the field of family and children counseling and choosing the type of intervention to educate parents. Stress in three stages. The experimental group received a 90-minute training package (researcher-made) for 10 sessions. Data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance in SPSS software. The results indicated the effect of the Instructional Hope centered Parenting Package on the score of negative Parenting Stress (P< 0.05) in the post-test stage and the stability of this effect in the follow-up stage.  The results of the study suggest evidences training though this package can reduce the parenting stress in mothers. This research can be useful for psychotherapists and counselors in the field of family and children counseling and choosing the type of intervention to educate parents.

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