Journal of Woman and Family Studies
Effectiveness of Parenting styles Training an attitudes toward parenting in first-time pregnant mothers
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Abstract
This study evaluated the effect of parenting style (parental skills) on the changing attitude of first time pregnant women toward parenting. The study sample consisted of first time pregnant women at the Mirza Kochak Khan Tehran Hospital of obstetrics and gynecology in fall
and winter of 2014. This is an applied research which was done by pretest - posttest experimental methods and control group. 60 out of 160 first time pregnant women who were in the realm of lax or
authoritarian styles were chosen using purposive sampling and Baumrind parenting questionnaire. Then were randomly divided to experimental and control groups; 30 person in each group. Subjects
in the experimental group were under the influence of parenting styles (parenting skills) using an educating package for 10 sessions of 120 minutes once a week. At the end of the educating sessions, both groups completed Baumrind parenting questionnaire. The statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS software. After testing the homogeneity of variance, analysis of research hypotheses was done by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The results of pre-test and post-test were as follows: Educating the parenting style results in a decrease (P<0.01) level of permissive parenting style and authoritarian parenting style.
The effect of educating parenting style on choosing accurate type of reasonable authoritative parenting style (P<0.01) is statistically significant. The MANCOVA statistical methods showed that educating parenting styles has a significant multivariate effect on the three
parenting styles (the dependent variable). so, educating parenting styles results in changing the attitude of first time pregnant women on the parenting style issue.
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