The effectiveness of the mindful parenting training package on improving the parent-child relationship, parenting stress and feelings of loneliness

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the mindful parenting training package on improving the parent-child relationship, parenting stress, and feelings of loneliness. The research method was practical in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of data collection method. The statistical population included all parents referring to psychology and counseling clinics in Shiraz, as well as psychologists and specialists in the field of working with children. Among them, ۳۰ people who visited Aram counseling clinic were selected by available sampling method, then they were randomly replaced in two control and experimental groups (۱۵ people each). The data collection tools were Gerard's Parent-Child Relationship Tension Questionnaire, the Abdin Parenting Stress Questionnaire, and Russell et al.'s Loneliness Scale. In order to analyze the data in the quantitative part of the descriptive statistical indicators such as frequency, mean and standard deviation and in order to generalize the findings from inferential statistics, the analysis of covariance test was used. Finally, the conclusion has been reached that the mindful parenting training package has an effect on improving the parent-child relationship, the mindful parenting training package has an effect on reducing parenting stress in mothers, and the mindful parenting training package has an effect on Reducing the feeling of loneliness in mothers has an effect.

Keywords:

Mindful parenting educational package , parent-child relationship , parenting stress , loneliness , بسته آموزشی فرزند پروری ذهن آگاهانه , رابطه والد کودک , استرس فرزند پروری , احساس تنهایی