Construction and Validation of Parenting Role Tasks Questionnaire

Rehabilitation Medicine, 2014

Background: The role of parents in children's development is very critical. Proper recognition of this role and it's tasks by parents is helpful in all aspect of children's life. The purpose of this research was to construct and validate a questionnaire to assess parental role tasks. Materials and Methods: This study included two phases. In the first phase, information regarding the parental role was collected from resources such as books, articles, internet, and interview with professionals and parents. In the second phase, face validity and content validity were assessed by conducting a research with experts and scholars. Result: In the first phase of the study, 75 items were extracted through the literature review, reduced into 34 by an interview with teachers and parents. In the determining of content validity and face validity, only one item deleted with low score. Mean content validity index was 0/93 and content validity ratio had a value of 0/80. C...

Journal of Research in Behavioural Sciences, 2020

Aim and Background: Parenting stress is one of the various effects that specific learning disorder has on parents. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of parenting program based on the lived experiences of mothers of children with specific learning disorder and positive parenting program on mothers' parenting stress. Methods and Materials: The research employed a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with the control group. The sample consisted of 45 mothers of children with specific learning disorder who were selected via the convenience sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. The research instrument was the Parenting Stress Index (PSI). Data were analyzed by MANCOVA and using SPSS version 23 software Findings: The research findings showed that both interventions had a significant effect on parenting stress. The results of the posttest showed that there was a significant difference between the two interventions of lived experiences parenting and positive parenting in the parenting stress variable in the children's realm, but there was no significant difference in the parenting stress variable in the parents' domain. Conclusions: Parenting program based on lived experiences can be used as an effective program to reduce mothers' parenting stress.

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2018

Background and purpose: Preterm birth is a stressful situation for parents and the infant, which may lead to difficulties in mother-infant relationships and disturb emotional and cognitive development in infants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factorial structure, validity, and reliability of the Parenting Stress Scale for Mothers of Premature Infants. The research sample included 500 mothers of premature infants selected via convenient sampling. They were divided into two groups (n=250 per group). Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to evaluate the reliability of the scale. Exploration and confirmation factor analysis were applied to investigate the validity of the scale. The Parenting Stress Scale for Mothers of Premature Infants was found to have an acceptable internal consistency and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.918. Test-re test reliability coefficient was 0.833 after 15 days. Three factors of parenting stress, mother-infant turbulent interaction, and parental expectations were obtained under the varimax rotation. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed that the structure of the scale had an acceptable fit to the data, and all indicators confirmed the fitting goodness of this model. Findings showed that this scale has appropriate psychometric properties which could be suitable in evaluating parenting stress for mothers of premature infants

Ravānshināsī-i Afrād-i Istis̠nāyī, 2019

Intellectual and Developmental Disability is a disorder that affects individuals' adaptive and intelligent performance in practical, social, and conceptual areas. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of parenting education based on the Double ABCX model and compassion-based parenting on the mother-child relationship and behavioral problems in children was an intelligence disabilities. The present research employed an experimental research with pretest-posttest, and follow-up design. The subjects were screened based on inclusion criteria, then 45 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (each group contained15 subjects). Mothers participated in 10 sessions of the Double ABCX program intervention, and in 8 sessions of compassion-based parenting, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The research instruments included The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)...

Iranina Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, 2017

Introduction: Parenting styles, as the most important and most fundamental factor shaping children's personality, are influenced by many factors including social, economic, and occupational experiences of parents. Considering job characteristics of females working in hospitals, this study aimed at investigating the parenting styles of females working in hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and some relevant variables during year 2014. Methods: This was a correlational cross-sectional study, in which 202 females working in hospitals of Isfahan and having children with an age range of 1 to 11, were selected by convenience sampling method. All participants completed the questionnaire of demographic features and also Baumrind's parenting style questionnaire. The information was analyzed based on descriptive and analytical statistic methods and also using the SPSS software Version 20. Results: The results revealed that participants received the highest average score in authoritative parenting style (32.4 ± 4.2), and the lowest in the authoritarian style (16.78 ± 6). Among the studied variables, age and number of children were negatively correlated with permissive parenting style score, and education level was positively correlated with permissive parenting style score. Other variables, however, were not significantly correlated with the parenting styles. Conclusions: Considering the job characteristics of females and the essential role of mothers in raising children, it is necessary to adjust working hours of females, in addition to training and promoting parenting skills and facilities.

Iranian Journal of Nursing Research, 2016

Introduction: the kind of mothers` occupation is one of the factors which have a great effect on their parenting style. The objective of the present study is having comparative analysis of parenting styles between female nurses and female office staff in the selected hospital under the supervision of Esfahan University of medical sciences on 2014. Method: The method of this survey is comparative and explanatory analysis of sectional kind which analyzed 202 of female nurses and the Female office staff and having children with the age range of 1 to 11. They were selected by the simple` sampling. Data` collection has been done by the means of the questionnaire of demographic`s features and Baumrind` s parenting style questionnaire. The information has been analyzed based on statistical explanatory and inferential methods and also by the use of the software of SPSS of 20 versions. Results: This survey`s findings have shown that the average` score of, authoritative, authoritarian , and p...

The Iran Journal of Nursing

Background & Aims: Parental participation in decision-making for neonates with life-threatening conditions is morally and ethically approved. The health care team in the neonatal intensive care units is not prepared to involve parents in these decisions. Identifying factors affecting parental participation in decision-making can lead to removing the barriers and improving parents’ participation. The present study aimed to identify organizational factors influencing parents’ participation in decision-making for neonates with life-threatening conditions. Materials & Methods: This study is part of a comprehensive project based on Corbin and Straus’s approach to grounded theory (GT) methodology (Corbin & Strauss, 2015) explored the process of parental participation in DM for neonates with LTC. Participants included 23 people (10 parents, 10 healthcare providers, 1 official in the Neonatal Health Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, 1 professor of Jurisprudence and Pri...

Journal of psychologicalscience, 2020

2020

Bullying phenomenon is one of the most common problems of students which may have undesirable and destructive effects on their psychosocial well-being. Alongside, the training system used by the parents may play significant role in preventing the children from learning bullying or engaging in it. Accordingly, the current research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of parent management training (PMT) on reducing bullying and improving cognitive emotion regulation in students. Method: This study was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design. The sample included thirty six 10 to 12-year-old students studying at grades four and five of primary school in Karaj in the academic year 2017-2018, who were selected by cluster sampling and then randomly assigned to either the experimental or the control group (n= 18 per group). Research tools included the children forms of Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire (Olweus, 1996) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Granefski et al., 2001). Parents of the experimental group received nine 90-min weekly sessions of PMT successively (i.e. one per week), whereas the control group underwent no intervention. Data were analyzed by Multivariable Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) through using SPSS Version 20 Software. Results: Results of data analysis showed that PMT significantly reduced the symptoms of bullying (F=120.61, p<0.001) and maladaptive strategies in emotion regulation (F=17.98, p<0.001) and improved adaptive strategies (F=83.15, p<0.001) in students. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that PMT and change in parenting style and parental behavior patterns play significant roles in preventing the children from learning bullying or engaging in it and can lead to the decrease of bullying behaviors in them.

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, 2017

Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the confirmatory factor structure and validation of wife abuse Questionnaire in sample women of subclinical. Methods The study is cross-sectional and Married women's Mashhad city of formed the study population. Sample size of 671 women was selected by Availability sampling and the Qahari wife abuse Questionnaire with questionnaires Beck depression inventory, Sherer Self-Efficacy Scale and CTS-R questions given to was applied in the sample. Results The results of confirmatory factor analysis support three factors. The Investigate Criterion validity by Pearson correlation coefficient in the wife abuse Questionnaire with The Beck depression inventory and Sherer Self-efficacy Scale, were between 0.31 and 0.45 and also convergent validity with Revised Conflict Tactics Scale, 60.0 correlation coefficient was obtained than are very satisfactory. A significant difference between the factor of questionnaire wife abuse in the women of divorce and non-divorce showed that the questionnaire has features of validity discrimination. The results of Cronbach's alpha coefficient in the Cronbach's alpha for the total questionnaire and factors were between 87.0 and 95.0 that was satisfactory. Conclusion Therefore, based on the results of this study wife abuse's Questionnaire has psychometric properties applied for research and family counseling.