Mahboubeh Bagheri; karineh tahmassian; Mohammad Ali Mazaheri
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Mindful Parenting is a new application of mindfulness which aims to improve parenting through promoting the quality of parental attention and emotional awareness. Parent Management Training also focuses on the quality of parent-child relationship and involves learning new skills in order to modify children's ...
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Mindful Parenting is a new application of mindfulness which aims to improve parenting through promoting the quality of parental attention and emotional awareness. Parent Management Training also focuses on the quality of parent-child relationship and involves learning new skills in order to modify children's behavior. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program and parent management training program on psychological wellbeing and happiness of children. The research method was experimental including pretest-posttest with a control group design. The study population included all children in fourth to sixth grade in District 8 of Qom city in 96-95 school year, accompanied by their mothers. The sample included 41 children from fourth to sixth grade accompanied by their mothers that were selected by convenient sampling and assigned in experimental and control groups by random sampling. Research tools used on mothers included the mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program, 4-item happiness questionnaire and interpersonal mindfulness in parenting. Circular Mood and psychological wellbeing scale were the tools that were used on children. Participants completed the research tools in three phases of pretest, posttest and follow up. One group received mindful parenting and parent management training integrative program, while another group received only parent management training in 8 sessions, each 2 hours per week at a meeting. Mixed analysis of variance showed that the integrative program was more effective than parent management training in psychological wellbeing (F=7/57/ P<0/01) and these changes remained constant in follow up phase. There were no any differences between the two groups in happiness. Higher efficacy of integrative program in psychological wellbeing can be dependent upon application of mindful parenting principals. It seems that mindful parenting causes enrichment in parent- child relationship and consequently increases psychological well-being in children through mechanisms such as listening with full attention, accepting without judgment, compassion, self-regulation and emotional consciousness.
Nazanin Abed; Shahla Pakdaman; Mohammad Ali Mazaheri; Mahmoud Heidari; Karineh Tahmassian
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of “listening to children respectfully” package on enhancing 5 and 6-year-old children’s well- being. 42 mother and child pairs were selected. They were initially tested with CBCL and SCL90 questionnaires to make sure none of them ...
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of “listening to children respectfully” package on enhancing 5 and 6-year-old children’s well- being. 42 mother and child pairs were selected. They were initially tested with CBCL and SCL90 questionnaires to make sure none of them are suffering from behavioral or psychological disorders. They were accidentally divided to experiment and control groups. Children of both groups filled the children’s psychological well-being scale in 3 stages: pre-test, post-test and follow up, and the package was taught to mothers of experiment group in 6 sessions. Analytical method was MANOVA for analyzing data. Findings revealed that well- being scores of children in experimental group significantly increased after intervention for their mothers. The scores were still high after two-month follow up. Findings of this research were discussed considering previous research. Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are also given.
