Saeedeh Motamed ¹, Shohreh Ghorbanshiroudi ², Javad Khalatbari ², Mohammad Ebrahim Maddahi ³, Mohammad Mojtaba Keikhayfarzaneh ⁴

Affiliations
1 Young Researchers Club,Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IR
2 Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IR
3 Shahed University, Department of Psychology, Tehran, IR
4 Young Researchers Club, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, IR

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed increasing problems of parents of children affected with disorder in different fields. The aim of this article is to determine the effectiveness of group training of positive parenting of children affected with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The current research is of quasi-experimental and of pre and post test type of study. In this study, 46 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder which referred to occupational therapy centers in Tehran, were randomly selected as the two groups of experiment and control. In addition to drug therapy and occupational therapy programs, mothers of those children received eight (2h) sessions of group training of positive parenting program and the control group did not receive the training. A post-test are performed on both of the groups after the completion. Demographic information and 48-questions (questionnaire of Conners classification scale of parents) are used and the data used by ANCOVA are applied. To review the test assumptions, covariance analysis test is used and the data are analyzed by SPSS software. The average scores of behavioral disorders decreased in post-test of related experimental group, which indicates that group training program of Sanders parenting impact, is positive. (F=5247, sig< 0.005). Hence, this model is recommended to be used as one of the training patterns to the parents to reduce behavioral disorders of ADHD children.

Keywords

Hyperactivity Disorder-attention Deficit, Behavioral Disorders, Positive Parenting, Saunders

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Mohammad Ebrahim Maddahi ¹, Nasirudin Javidi ², Mona Samadzadeh ², Maryam Amini ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Shahed University, Tehran, IR
2 University of Science & Culture, Department of Psychology, Family Therapy, Tehran, IR
3 Shahed University, Department of Psychology, Tehran, IR

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the relationship between parenting styles (including authoritative, authoritarian, permissiveness and neglectful) and personality dimensions (including five factors as extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experiences). For this purpose, 272 students from national university, Islamic Azad University and Payam Nour University of Yazd pre-province were selected at random and responded to Parenting Styles Questionnaire (Naghashian, 1979) and Five-Factor Personality Factors Questionnaire (Costa and McCrae). The findings show that among all the components of personality, there is a direct and significant relationship only between openness personality trait and authoritative parenting style; that is to say, authoritative parenting style is correlated with developing openness trait components (including, having desire for curiosity, imagination, aesthetics, wisdom, enlightenment and humanism).

Keywords

Parenting Style, Personality Traits, Student

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