Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Maryam badipoor ¹
• Hossein Salimi Bajestani ²
• Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh ³

¹ M.A. in Family Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University

² Associate Professor in Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University

³ Assistant Professor in Counseling, Allameh Tabataba’i University

Abstract

Present study evaluates psychology empowerment effectiveness on decreasing mothers’ conflict of mother-child in Health Room of Tehran city. The method of the study is semi-experimental research with rendering of pre-exam and post-exam by witness group. In this study, we selected two Health Room cities of 15^th zone of Tehran City Hall and North Afsarieh Health Room Locality. We sampled all available mothers who referred to Health Room after confirming their suitable conditions for our study. These mothers tested about mother-child conflict and finally 30 mothers selected who had the most conflict with their children. Then they divided by two groups by using of Random Selective method and considered in two groups of control and experiment. The experiment group participated in our sessions 8 rounds each 90 minutes. Data gathering tool in our study was scale questionnaire of mother-child conflict tactics. We analyzed gathered data with one variant covariance analysis method. The results showed that mothers’ psychology empowering program cause decrease of mother-child conflict, verbal aggression and physical aggression plus increase of argument between them. So we can claim that these people could decrease conflicts between themselves and their children by increase of self-confident, self-control, anger control and self-decision skill plus improve their irrational believes about their children and encourage them.                                                         

Keywords

• argument
• verbal aggression
• Physical aggression
• Empowerment psychology
• Conflict between mother-child