An Effective Parenting Training Study for Parents of 2- to 6-year-old Children
Project no. 1084 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
The main purpose of this study was to design and conduct a training program for the parents of children whose age ranged from 2 to 6 years old that will improve their parenting styles. To a training program that has psycho-social qualities has been developed and administered by six developmental psychology PhD students for the duration of six weeks who had been trained on the topic prior. In each week, the different subject that has been presented to parents to build a better understanding of the children’s developmental stages and how to tackle certain problems that are q-unique to this age group. During these weeks theoretical and practical knowledge shared wıth parents and their questions on each week's topics has been answered. Both academic and administrative stuff of Ege University who are the parents of 2- to 6-year-olds have participated in this training study. Parents were asked to complete the following questionnaires of Parenting Attitudes, Child Rearing and Coping with Negative Emotions in both pre- and post training stages. Ninety participants in total were in both training and control groups. It was found that training group's responses in both parenting attitudes and child rearing were different than the control group. However, there was no training effect on coping with negative emotions scale. Key words: Effective parenting, 2-6 years-olds, training study